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My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:55 pm
by greggl
Heya!
Wanted to show the diy 'gun' I've been working on. This is the first one I kitted out with a torn apart wiimote/chuck.
I got it running, handed it to my wife and started filming. (I think it worked... She's addicted to DayZ now:).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMrnOHObhjI
My day job is vfx and virtual tech for production. I'd love to see a consumer product through to market, but as they say, 'Hardware is hard'.
It's amazing to see the VR gaming space heat up!
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:18 am
by TheVividLight
The pic is just a white box for me, anyone else ahve that problem?
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 11:31 pm
by cybereality
OMG!!! This is what MTBS is all about.
Guess I must have missed this over the holidays, great stuff.
@TheVividLight: The OP has an embedded YouTube video. Maybe you don't have Flash installed or are browsing on an iPad, etc.
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 2:09 pm
by greggl
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:36 pm
by johnfshaughnessy
This is awesome!
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:43 am
by TheVividLight
Thanks Cyber, Work computer, so probably for the best =p
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:04 pm
by GeraldT
man this is awesome and the monitor is perfect to get people understanding the concept right away!!
that is exactly the kind of stuff good kickstarters can be made off!
how does the tracking work?
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:44 pm
by greggl
GeraldT wrote:man this is awesome and the monitor is perfect to get people understanding the concept right away!!
that is exactly the kind of stuff good kickstarters can be made off!
how does the tracking work?
I'm staying tracking solution agnostic - every solution has an Achilles' heel somewhere.
I've hooked these up to optical systems, IMUs, magnetic - even massive hollywood virtual production systems and motion capture systems.
Still experimenting
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:46 pm
by greggl
I've been using the hell out of this tech - there is a piece that includes a portion of how I employed it at the 2:00 mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMgGjiWZXEQ
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:27 pm
by GeraldT
... i love the tracked camera experience. having the ability to do this is cool. watched a demo once where camera picture was merged with a realtime Avatar rendering and it blew my mind. Can't wait to get the ability to do this at home!
Looking forward to your progress, please share a status from time to time
Re: My DIY VR gun experiments
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 8:13 pm
by greggl
Little project we did for Machinima.com. Oculus at :45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGG7aru2S6U