08-09-2014 02:17 PM
[–]tobiasbaumann41 points 16 hours ago*
Hi Reddit,
long time lurker, first time poster here. I'm Tobias Baumann, an indie game developer from Switzerland and in the last 1.5 months I've been in Beijing doing R&D with PERCEPTION NEURON. I did most of the gameplay prototypes and I also did a lot of research on how to use this technology in video games. I will write a longer blog post about it later but let me summaries the important things:
•Using finger motion tracking is one of the coolest, most intuitive ways to interact in the virtual world. However it is also very challenging to develop good experience for it because of the lack of tactical feedback.
•I believe there will be a huge application field for upper-body tracking in combination with VR. Not just for games but also for other applications.
•Using full body poses more challenges as it requires more space to move around in and if your using it with VR there is the additional challenge of how to prevent players from running into physical walls. Using a treadmill system could solve some of these but still doesn't provide a complete freedom of movement.
•Using a system like PERCEPTION NEURON is the perfect fit for real-time virtual reality interaction. You can use it without an HMD but then the interaction gets more difficult because of the lack of depth.
•Using it for none real-time interaction is a lot easier as this is an already established field. The difference now is that its affordable. So everyone can buy and use it for their own motion capture and animation ideas.
Using motion capture like this for real-time game interaction is still a very unexplored territory. I'm looking very forward to exploring the possibilities and tackling the challenges of PERCEPTION NEURON with all of you.
Noitom (the company developing PERCEPTION NEURON) will be at SIGGRAPH. So if you're around I highly recommend to go check out their booth #533. They will demo the system there and you can try it out yourself by playing some of the demos I made.
I'll be around here for a while trying to answer some of the questions to the best of my knowledge.
EDIT: made some typos 🙂
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08-09-2014 03:15 PM
"ZmillA" wrote:
Wow that looks pretty cool. Lot's of potential for indie/small developers/film makers.
The pedigree of the team seems pretty legit as well.
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