yoshi-mocap opened this issue on Jun 03, 2006 · 89 posts
fuaho posted Fri, 30 June 2006 at 9:42 PM
Sorry if I'm coming at this totally out of left field, but you might try a different camera setup. Directly overhead looking down, horizontally from the front, horizontally from the left and 45-degrees from the upper right should provide complete coverage of the space with fewer cameras, less data to process and a less expensive system.
Overall though this is a very exciting and promising endeavor.
Years ago I created a program for the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital spinal cord injuries department and was heavily into Virtual Reality technology. Data Gloves provided the ability to manipulate the virtual worlds for those that had some dextrous capabilites and IR tracking technology enabled quadraplegics to move a cursor across the screen just by moving their head while a "puff & sip" tube provided left & right mouse clicks so they could play chess, checkers or even a rudimentary game of tennis (for those of you who may remember REND386). I always felt that there was a therapeutic place for a mocap system to provide a form of visual feedback of limb position for those who couldn't derive that feedback from the nervous system directly. At that time, mocap technology like "Flock of Birds" was pretty slow, extremely expensive and really glitchy. Primarily due to the extreme cost of the systems we were never able to implement that part of the program.
Perhaps your work will finally be able to bring this capability to some of those who have given so much to their country.
Keep up the good work and please keep me informed of your progress.
Regards,
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