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December 17, 2013

nodes with spacial awarness

I find it very difficult to Google what I'm looking for. Are there solid nodes that can calculate their distance and movement compared to a group nodes in different locations without use of ir. For example if I was to put one on my head and one in each hand and have them all linked to a chip to gather relative distance from each other in 3 d space. Or at least the distance the hands are from the head and each hand from each other. I'm thinking magnetic possible.

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    Up and Coming
    December 17, 2013
    Razer Hydra?
    Up and Coming
    December 18, 2013
    Krenzo was experimenting with Radio.

    Ultrasonic could work (but it gets interference and is poor w/out line of sight).

    The Hydra seems like your best bet for a cheap(-ish; they're getting more expensive) system like that.

    You could also attach strings to your hands (which are connected to spring-loaded rotary encoders) to measure distance like that.
    Up and Coming
    December 18, 2013
    "zalo" wrote:
    ... You could also attach strings to your hands (which are connected to spring-loaded rotary encoders) to measure distance like that.

    You described the Mad Catz GameTrak:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gametrak

    The patent:
    http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&NR=2373039

    A dedicated thread:
    http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=138&t=15717

    A video of it in use:



    How to mod the PS2 version for PC use:
    http://x37v.com/x37v/writing/mad-catz-gametrak-mod-for-maxmsp/

    And some you can buy on ebay:
    http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=gametrak

    There is also a short discussion of it in this thread:
    viewtopic.php?f=41&t=5117&p=69657#p69657
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