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Positional tracking calibration
I'm still hopeful regarding the idea of approximating positional tracking for scenarios with limited mobility (e.g. the users sitting on a chair) with the accelerometers inside the rift tracker. I ...
Checkout DARPA’s Micro-PNT positioning tracking technology, their TIMU concept could maybe be added in 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 clock ("TIMU" or "Timing & Inertial Measurement Unit) to existing chips with 3-axis gyroscopes and 3-axis accelerometers (and 3-axis magnetometer) to simultaneous measure the motion tracked and combines that with timing from the syncronixed clock, and with sensor fusion makes a single chip that does absolute position tracking, all without external transmitters/transceivers.
Is this technology just too expensive or not yet released by DARPA for use in non-militerized commercial products?
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/04/10.aspx