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I was expecting this to be another phone holder, much more interesting that you hacked together some hardware. Does this feature a low persistence display? Also

by TipVFL 9y ago

I was expecting this to be another phone holder, much more interesting that you hacked together some hardware. Does this feature a low persistence display? Also, you mention "cheap tracking for next big update", is this just going to be an improvement over your current tracking or a full 6 DOF tracking? I don't think I've seen any hobbyist 6 DOF tracking for VR yet. Oh, one note, in your read me, the part about Jonas convincing Chinese factories to sell you parts at premium prices should be changed. You probably meant he got really good prices, but premium pricing means basically the opposite.

dannyw 9y ago
“I know this request is a little bit out of the ordinary, but would it be possible for you to charge us premium prices for this item? We’d like to pay more. No? Please, we’ll only buy it if you charge us more. Ok, thanks!”
lovemenot 9y ago
The opposite word he probably meant is discount price.
usrusr 9y ago
> I don't think I've seen any hobbyist 6 DOF tracking for VR yet. Webcam based hobbyist 6dof headtracking for use with desktop screens has been around for many years (freetrack, ftnoir/opentrack and so on), but the quality is rather dreadful. Still, people who don't mind glacial latency from very heavy smoothing have been very happy with those solutions. But VR requires so much headmounted technology that tradeoffs between cost/weight and quality shift a lot. For desktop tracking, adding head mounted sensors to the existing single camera 6dof tracking solutions would at least double the amount of hardware involved. But when your baseline is a full VR headset, those sensors are an almost negligible extension. Gyro sensors and/or an "inside out" camera could easily add a lot of precision/speed (effectively the same metric, with filtering) to the rotary axes of single cam 6dof. Last time I looked at opentrack it already supported some sort of fusion between stationary camera and Android gyros. This would be a good starting point for a hobbyist VR rig (not room scale).

by TipVFL 9y ago

dannyw 9y ago

“I know this request is a little bit out of the ordinary, but would it be possible for you to charge us premium prices for this item? We’d like to pay more. No? Please, we’ll only buy it if you charge us more. Ok, thanks!”

lovemenot 9y ago

The opposite word he probably meant is discount price.

usrusr 9y ago

> I don't think I've seen any hobbyist 6 DOF tracking for VR yet. Webcam based hobbyist 6dof headtracking for use with desktop screens has been around for many years (freetrack, ftnoir/opentrack and so on), but the quality is rather dreadful. Still, people who don't mind glacial latency from very heavy smoothing have been very happy with those solutions. But VR requires so much headmounted technology that tradeoffs between cost/weight and quality shift a lot. For desktop tracking, adding head mounted sensors to the existing single camera 6dof tracking solutions would at least double the amount of hardware involved. But when your baseline is a full VR headset, those sensors are an almost negligible extension. Gyro sensors and/or an "inside out" camera could easily add a lot of precision/speed (effectively the same metric, with filtering) to the rotary axes of single cam 6dof. Last time I looked at opentrack it already supported some sort of fusion between stationary camera and Android gyros. This would be a good starting point for a hobbyist VR rig (not room scale).