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RaveTZ
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12 years ago

Bike rig...ideas?

Any ideas on how to setup an exercise bike as an input controller for Unity3D?
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roculus99
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12 years ago
"RaveTZ" wrote:
Any ideas on how to setup an exercise bike as an input controller for Unity3D?


You will definitely need head position tracking for this. Your head bobs and sways a lot when cycling and if this is not represented in the simulation, barf-city. Looks like the Hydra will probably be the first to work for this.

As far as modeling the wheel turns, it should be pretty easy to find a USB encoder readout such as:

http://www.robotshop.com/phidget-encode ... eed-2.html