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Idea for Positional Tracking possibly.
So I was just watching some videos about the Oculus hd prototype at E3 and it hit me that wouldn't it be possible to have positional tracking by just using accelerometers? I don't have a whole lot of ...
Checkout DARPA’s Micro-PNT positioning tracking technology, their TIMU (Timing and IMU chip) could be the future:
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"Harley" wrote:
Micro-PNT (Micro-Technology for Positioning, Navigation and Timing) does absolute position tracking on a single chip!
To oversimplify it; Micro-PNT adds integrates a highly-accurate master timing clock integrated into a IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) chip, making it a "TIMU" ("Timing & Inertial Measurement Unit") chip.
So these TIMU chips for Micro-PNT have integrated 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis magnetometer, and together with the integrated highly-accurate master timing clock it simultaneous measure the motion tracked and combines that with timing from the synchronized clock, and with sensor fusion it makes a single chip that does absolute position tracking, all without external transmitters/transceivers.
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/04/10.aspx