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jakeleehigh
Up and Coming
August 2, 2014

360 positional tracking with dk2

The positional tracking on the dk2 is amazing, except if you are looking towards the rear. Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve this. Too bad there is no ir emitters in the strap!

Currently, I've mounted the camera 5' in front of me and on the ceiling. This reduced the positional dead zone to about 30 degrees in the rear. I'm trying to find a cheap fast solution to allowing users to feel they have full 360 freedom. The two solutions I have so far, is going back to the hydra solution I used to have (hate the wires though) or add a slight drift to the rear 30 degrees. This way if someone wants to walk away from the camera, their view will slightly drift causing them to turn their bodies and get them out of the 30 degree dead zone.

Any other suggestions?

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    PlumCantaloupe
    Participant
    August 10, 2014
    Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring as hoping for a possibility of adding additional cameras for a 360 setup.

    I must admit this is one of the most important things for me right now; as standing experiences are what I am aiming for right now. This and a wireless setup of some sort. Hack or otherwise ....
    antigravity
    Up and Coming
    August 22, 2014
    "PlumCantaloupe" wrote:
    Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring as hoping for a possibility of adding additional cameras for a 360 setup.

    I must admit this is one of the most important things for me right now; as standing experiences are what I am aiming for right now. This and a wireless setup of some sort. Hack or otherwise ....



    Just a heads up, I finally got around to testing this-

    360 tracking with the DK2 works great -

    The camera should be off to the right or left coming in at a 45 degree angle,
    and it needs to point down from above at a 45 degree angle-

    You also need the distance from camera to headset to be aproximately 5 feet-

    I've had about five people give a standing demo a try, and not one encountered a dead-zone- and people were even getting down low to the ground.

    awesome..
    PlumCantaloupe
    Participant
    September 19, 2014
    "antigravity" wrote:

    Just a heads up, I finally got around to testing this-

    360 tracking with the DK2 works great -

    The camera should be off to the right or left coming in at a 45 degree angle,
    and it needs to point down from above at a 45 degree angle-

    You also need the distance from camera to headset to be aproximately 5 feet-

    I've had about five people give a standing demo a try, and not one encountered a dead-zone- and people were even getting down low to the ground.

    awesome..


    Thanks! I am going to have to try this out. I imagine there would still be a problem facing directly away from the camera though ...
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