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saint:
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 01:06:11 pm ---It would be nice if people weren't so judgmental and quick to jump to conclusions. - let the moderators moderate this forum, if i'm breaking rules i'll be more than happy to get banned.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_AO0F5sLdVM
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Moderator has no problems with your posts :)
TheAdMan:
To me it seems the guy from naturalpoint was concerned about the gun not being 100% plugnplay - meaning no software, no calibration. he goes on to state that they could probably get around this by including software or calibration.
Have you watched the demo's i've posted? What are your thoughts about those?
I may be wrong, but is seems if you can track an object in 3d space then you don't need reference markers.
I don't know I guess I'm just not a "It can't be done" kind of person :)
patrickl:
these "dots" are far apart though
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: TheAdMan on June 07, 2007, 07:46:47 pm ---The topgun is essentially a single camera device, A sensor (camera) in the gun picks up multiple LED's to position itself. - am I right about that?
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Yes.... but it calculates its position from the difference in position between widely spaced multi point IR LED's. As do most currently in use real arcade machines.
Are you now proposing that widely spaced LED's are mounted on a gun.... and even if they are, the rotational (YAW) axis is nearly impossible to calculate with a resolution high enough to be functional. Unless you're talking about a system costing several thousand dollars.
The maths doesn't work when you reverse the system and try to make the camera static and the LED's mobile. Unless of course you want 6" rods poking out of the sides and top of the gun with an IR LED on the top and ends Plus some static floor marker LED's to give it a ground plane to calculate position against.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
PS.... Typed that at the same time as Patrick who clearly understood the unsolvable problem as well. This is exactly the problem that all of those major corporations hit a brick wall with and until you've worked with motion tracking it's impossible to understand how big a problem it really is.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on June 07, 2007, 07:59:59 pm ---PS.... Typed that at the same time as Patrick who clearly understood the unsolvable problem as well.
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Lol, at least you quoted the statement since now the whole post we responded to is different/gone.
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