Desktop VR Head Tracking using the Wii Remote and Compiz Fus

Head tracking using a Wii Remote, CWiiD and Compiz-Fusion! Navigate your computer as if it were a portal to another world.

For more info head over to http://smspillaz.wordpress.com and
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=45517#post45517

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Compiz
• Fusion
• XGL
• AIGLX
• Wiimote
• Virtual
• Reality
• Head
• Tracking

[GegoXaren]

o and that true a normal webcam..

[smSpillaz]

It's actually a video camera

[Sxean888]

Why are you ripping off Johnny Lee ? you didn't come up with this idea, he did. So credit him, and quit trying to play it off like it's your idea.

[smSpillaz]

Woah guys, slow down a little here. All I was doing was demonstrating JCL's Head Tracking algorithm with the Compiz Fusion Wiitrack plugin.

[stiansoftcore]

IT'S FOR LINUX, WHAT A SHOCKER

[alienskull3000]

i believe that the windows are moving incorrectly..

shouldnt they windows in the front move more than the ones in the back

just try it with your finger and the horizon.. your finger appears to move much more with side to side motion of your head

[roidroid]

@CastleNtheSky ah, i hadn't considered that people would think the wiimote was too heavy.

Bit weird, i mean it's designed to be light enough to swish around in your hand. I don't personally think it's heavy.

[CastleNtheSky]

@roidroid because how heavy is two infrared LEDs and a battery??? ....and how heavy and cumbersome is a wiimote???

that's why

[CastleNtheSky]

@alienskull3000 if the code was written to reflect the reality of your statement it would have to move things off of the monitor because they are tracking past the display. It wasn't programmed the way it was by mistake, rather for technical reasons.

[LeTicSnow]

how do you get the grid thing with the targets because i have the tracking thing but i dont know how to use the virtual window part

[mrkringle]

@smSpillaz, FYI, your execution for manipulating the environment is flipped, at least for the horizontal coordinates. just invert your y axis.

[wenerdj]

AROUND TEH WORLD

[roidroid]

The sensor bar requires a cable (unless you modify it), but the Wiimote does not require a cable.

So why didn't you put the much more portable wiimote on your head, instead of the sensor bar?

[roidroid]

@mj1903ikjshdj it's a mix of Australian and American accent

[mulfu]

@smSpillaz its an infrared camera

[geniusiknowit]

I'm not talking about games. I'm talking about the desktop and productivity applications. This sort of thing would be a nightmare for working on graphics, or a spreadsheet, or a word document. I could see it possibly being used to navigate multiple windows of large directories.... but it would seem to me to be less productive than simply scrolling.

There is a serious limit to the usefulness of "3D" effects on a 2-dimensional medium.