Nodding Yes or No for input

"Fiore" wrote:
Has anyone tried to use the nodding yes or no movement of the Oculus to activate a event in Unity?

Build it! I would love to use this is my game!

Brilliant idea! Nod yes or no should be a natural intuitive input method for story mode games with scripted sequences!

Can't believe they did not think of this before and included it as a standard input method option in the Oculus SDK? :o

Excellent, but can we get some more examples of this gesture? I'm not sure I have enough data to extrapolate meaningful pattern recognition yet.

My contribution:

You don't have to use a big pattern recognition, just look at the rotation angles of your camera and see how they change. define a threshold for the movement. let the player look at the question to have a reference and then see if you reach the threshold in both directions on the X or Y axis.
at least that is how I would approach it - maybe I'll give it a try.

I'm pretty sure he was kidding Gerald lol. I'll be doing this and other such things in the udk once i get my rift though.

"spire8989" wrote:
I'm pretty sure he was kidding Gerald lol. I'll be doing this and other such things in the udk once i get my rift though.

:oops: ... uppps, you might have a point there. :lol:

Hi, I wrote a very simple nod/headshake recognizer last year and now it works on DK2.
https://github.com/KatsuomiK/RiftGesture

I've done things like this, the biggest problem I encountered was false positives, but I was just looking in a direction, a nod is a good idea because its a specificly timed back and forth gesture. you could use the info from GetCameraPositionOrientation to analyze the movement and detect stuff like that.

edit: KatsuomiK, that's very cool of you, thank you :)