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Oculus VR with motion capture
{update20140809} hi guys, we put it on Kickstarter.We worked really hard to make it affordable and easy to use. Now you guys are able to get this kind of stuff home and play with it. We are exhibitin...
"geekmaster" wrote:
The developers must have ignored the naysayers who claim that positional motion capture with IMUs is impossible (or at least not good enough for head tracking).
Well generally I think the naysayers mean that position for a single sensor cannot be determined. Kinematic constraints offers a neat little "cheat" to this limitation but still requires a number of sensors to work well.
I am happy to see people working on this though - bucking the conventional wisdom about optical mo-cap. IMU mo-cap could have major benefits in terms of the variety and scale of environments.