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CosbyTron
13 years agoHonored Guest
Unity Freetrack Positional Tracking
I was looking into using Freetrack for positional tracking and it turns out someone's already built a nice Unity package for the job! I thought I'd share it here. If you don't have an ideal setup (i...
CosbyTron
13 years agoHonored Guest
Ha! Can never have too many Trons (well, I guess that depends on your feelings about Tron Legacy :-P )
@craigotron - Sorry I never got back to the thread with details. I had a really hard time getting it to work well. Freetrack has to detect all 3 lights at all times and I just couldn't get consistent tracking with a visible light cam and these white LEDs. I may mod the cam to be IR only and try out some IR LEDs (which should help a lot, I think that's basically how TrackIR works with the Pro Clip), but even then, there is a lot of lag.
I still think there's potential here, but when I realized the solution wasn't going to be as simple as "tape 3 lights to your rift," I questioned how many people would benefit from implementing support into a game.
@craigotron - Sorry I never got back to the thread with details. I had a really hard time getting it to work well. Freetrack has to detect all 3 lights at all times and I just couldn't get consistent tracking with a visible light cam and these white LEDs. I may mod the cam to be IR only and try out some IR LEDs (which should help a lot, I think that's basically how TrackIR works with the Pro Clip), but even then, there is a lot of lag.
I still think there's potential here, but when I realized the solution wasn't going to be as simple as "tape 3 lights to your rift," I questioned how many people would benefit from implementing support into a game.
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