Controling the AR Drone 2.0 with the Oculus Rift and the MYO

That is interesting idea. I also have AR.Drone 2 and some experience with it's SDK. And curious how it can be comfortably integrated with Oculus even just to have video translated to it. But as far as I understood from docs, there is no way to connect Oculus directly to mobile platform. How do you plan to make it happen? Connect Oculus to PC with cable, connect AR.Drone to PC via WiFi and create custom application to use PC as router? For me it doesn't look too comfortible - you'll need to be with your laptop all the time to use such devices combination.

You can already control the AR.Drone with a PC/controller other than a phone: http://www.lbpclabs.com/autoflight

So you could use the Oculus Rift as an image receiver from the drone. The drone's movement would be controlled using a PC controller of your choice, but that's not intuitive so you'd be better using a Virtuix Omni (www.virtuix.com) or even better, a Viiwok (viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1224).

I just ordered the Oculus, wish I could try to play with the ArDrone in a few months...

"mlorber" wrote:
I just ordered the Oculus, wish I could try to play with the ArDrone in a few months...

I've ordered one too. Once it arrives I will try and implement this too using a laptop and an XBox controller initially. Pity that the AR Drone 2.0 only has one front camera. Would be interesting to have a stereoscopic video feed too. I find that the biggest problem controlling the AR Drone indoors is that it is difficult to judge distances of objects around you. Another issue (at least when controlling the AR Drone with a smartphone is that the video feed can get pretty choppy. Will need to try and boost the wi-fi signal as much as possible to ensure a decent frame rate or it would be pretty unpleasant with the Oculus Rift.

I'm working on something similar with the Phantom Quadcopter and a Raspberry Pi. I'm using GStreamer to send a live video feed from the Raspberry Pi camera to my macbook. Currently, the video just plays on the laptop screen, but the next step is to get it viewable on the Rift. Once that is working, I plan on putting together a step by step tutorial.

Here are some of my observations so far:
- I'm currently streaming at 720p / 30 fps, but with a strong enough connection I think I can get to 1080p.
- I was loosing the signal when I went over 70 ft from the router when using a 9db high gain omni-directional antena
- I now have a 15db directional antena and have kept the connection alive as high as seen in video titled GraduationPartyScott (maybe 400 ft ?)
- When sitting right next to the router the lag is pretty low (in the hundreds of milliseconds)
- As I get farther from the router, the lag accumulates and the video is eventually off by as much as 10 seconds. I think that this can be fixed by switching from a TCP to a UDP connection

You can check out some of my videos here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoXmMG_1NTkBw1nIEcKCFQw

He wasn't controlling it with the Rift, but CyberVillain has flown while wearing the Rift: http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=140&t=18157#p137176

Any one need beta testers for this let me know i have:

2 x ardrone 2.0
1 x GPS USB module
2 x gopro 3 black
1 x occulus
1 x MYO on order (3 month wait so far)

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