Ideas for Oculus Rift use outdoors
The proposal is to mount a pair of cameras, each feeding into the relevant oculus viewport, on top of a gyroscopically stabilised pole with the width between the eyes proportional to the height of the pole so as to prevent body awareness issues other than scale. The cameras would also need image stabilisation to prevent nausea.
The camera-supporting assembly is to include servos and actuators to directly reflect positional tracking from the Oculus Rift headset, so that the cameras point at what the user is looking at irrespective of the orientation of the user.
Supplementary secondary rear-facing cameras in a 'rear-view mirror' to augment functionality.
Uses are many. The pack can be either backpack-mounted, tethered blimp mounted or vehicle mounted.
1) In civilian vehicular use, getting better perspective on traffic, including seeing past oversized vehicles while in traffic queues, better judging apexes, 3d rear view (see supplementary cameras above) along with all the ideal HUD type displays as GPS navigation etc.
2) Military vehicular use - all the above plus reduced user injury risk through reduced exposure to enemy action plus significantly greater situational awareness - ie an armoured military vehicle with no windows, only an easily and cheaply replaceable camera stalk.
3) Military backpack use - increased situational awareness with reduced risk to the individual - not only backpack mounted camera pack but also drone/UAV mounted, in which increased depth perception/HUD information/rear view/alternate spectra optics (infra-red, night vision) in which real-time head tracking and wide FOV provide a real advantage over current tech.
Sports:
Imagine going to a football game where not only is your view not obscured by the person in front with the inconsiderately sized hat but you can zoom in from your own camera pod in 3D and also jack in to the stadium's own action tracking 3d camera pods in real time.
Extreme Sports: A stereoscopic version of the GoPro head mounted cameras allows casual users to vicariously live the extreme experiences of premium athletes. The lenses of these cameras could be extra wide angle to account for software based user viewpoint limited FOV head tracking, but that's a different idea.
One other aspect I am interested in is with the backpack mounted camera pack - walking through he streets with a stereoscopic camera pack, the cameras 6' apart and the pole 12' tall for example, would you think of yourself as a giant with very short legs?
I an very interested in hearing anyone's feedback about these ideas. Please feel free to use these ideas as you see fit, all I ask is they get done so that I can one day use them. If you are planning on developing anything like this please let me know, I have loads of ideas for alternate uses and refinements.
The camera-supporting assembly is to include servos and actuators to directly reflect positional tracking from the Oculus Rift headset, so that the cameras point at what the user is looking at irrespective of the orientation of the user.
Supplementary secondary rear-facing cameras in a 'rear-view mirror' to augment functionality.
Uses are many. The pack can be either backpack-mounted, tethered blimp mounted or vehicle mounted.
1) In civilian vehicular use, getting better perspective on traffic, including seeing past oversized vehicles while in traffic queues, better judging apexes, 3d rear view (see supplementary cameras above) along with all the ideal HUD type displays as GPS navigation etc.
2) Military vehicular use - all the above plus reduced user injury risk through reduced exposure to enemy action plus significantly greater situational awareness - ie an armoured military vehicle with no windows, only an easily and cheaply replaceable camera stalk.
3) Military backpack use - increased situational awareness with reduced risk to the individual - not only backpack mounted camera pack but also drone/UAV mounted, in which increased depth perception/HUD information/rear view/alternate spectra optics (infra-red, night vision) in which real-time head tracking and wide FOV provide a real advantage over current tech.
Sports:
Imagine going to a football game where not only is your view not obscured by the person in front with the inconsiderately sized hat but you can zoom in from your own camera pod in 3D and also jack in to the stadium's own action tracking 3d camera pods in real time.
Extreme Sports: A stereoscopic version of the GoPro head mounted cameras allows casual users to vicariously live the extreme experiences of premium athletes. The lenses of these cameras could be extra wide angle to account for software based user viewpoint limited FOV head tracking, but that's a different idea.
One other aspect I am interested in is with the backpack mounted camera pack - walking through he streets with a stereoscopic camera pack, the cameras 6' apart and the pole 12' tall for example, would you think of yourself as a giant with very short legs?
I an very interested in hearing anyone's feedback about these ideas. Please feel free to use these ideas as you see fit, all I ask is they get done so that I can one day use them. If you are planning on developing anything like this please let me know, I have loads of ideas for alternate uses and refinements.