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This reminds of the head tracking demo using a Wii remote made by Johnny Lee years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw https://www.youtube.com/watc

This reminds of the head tracking demo using a Wii remote made by Johnny Lee years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

ladberg 9y ago
This is mentioned in the article too...
mft_ 9y ago
LOL, remember getting that working at home, back in the day - gyrating in front of my monitor with (from memory) the Wii's IR transmitter bar held to my forehead. It was a lovely little taste of what might have been.. although we're still waiting!
- kakarot 9y ago
  I was more fascinated with his projected touchscreen using a pressure-activated LED at the end of a pen. He's quite the visionary.
Lewton 9y ago
I'm torn, there's literally a link to Johnny Lee's work in the article. So your comment doesn't add anything. But a lot of people read only the comments (or the comments before the article) so your comment does add value Is it a good HN comment or not? :D
- bringtheaction 9y ago
  It’s an acceptable kind of HN comment. A link in the article is generally easy to miss and probably others missed it too. Admittedly the article did talk enough about the other thing that it’d be pretty hard to miss if you read the whole thing, but I think we can forgive it still. Perhaps the parent to your comment opened the page and saw the video but didn’t bother to read the article. I think that’s fine too. I always read comments first and in fact quite often I read the comments only. As long as we don’t derail the discussion completely by starting a top-level comment about how we perceive something based on the title alone I think it’s fine. That includes it being fine to mention things that you are reminded of by the title as long as you phrase it correctly. In my opinion of course.
- hungerstrike 9y ago
  Your own comment is so self-important that I stopped thinking about the article at all and moved onto thinking about how much I despise people. So your comment adds less than nothing IMO.
  - Lewton 9y ago
    Agreed that my comment has little to no value But I was genuinely curious how other people felt :)
- ChrisRR 9y ago
  Oops! I admit I skimmed the text and looked at the pretty pictures.
mncharity 9y ago
You can play with this in browser.[1][2][3] And there's OpenCV.js.[4] But I more often simply put a small square of yellow gaffer's tape between my eyebrows, and do color tracking.[5] Accurate, reliable, and cpu/battery cheap. And for expert UIs, one doesn't have to emulate reality. So you might exaggerate parallax, be non-linear or discontinuous, etc. There might be a much larger vocabulary available, than merely "look through the small portal" and "make secondary content conditional on viewing angle". Maybe. Why might you want this? Consider your primary "desktop" environment shifting into HMDs. But you still need to mix in screen time, to give your eyes a break. It would hypothetically be nice to have similar UI idioms on screen. Especially as your tooling becomes less and less like current 2D ones. [1] old similar demo (broken on FF) http://auduno.github.com/headtrackr/examples/targets.html http://auduno.github.com/headtrackr/examples/targets.html video: https://vimeo.com/44049736 https://vimeo.com/44049736 [2] current tracking-only demo https://trackingjs.com/examples/face_camera.html https://trackingjs.com/examples/face_camera.html [3] eye/gaze tracking (demos at bottom; but for me, they require good lighting, and beard removal) https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/ https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/ using https://www.auduno.com/clmtrackr/examples/clm_video.html https://www.auduno.com/clmtrackr/examples/clm_video.html [4] opencv.js https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html [5] color tracking https://trackingjs.com/examples/color_camera.html https://trackingjs.com/examples/color_camera.html

This reminds of the head tracking demo using a Wii remote made by Johnny Lee years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

ladberg 9y ago

This is mentioned in the article too...

mft_ 9y ago

LOL, remember getting that working at home, back in the day - gyrating in front of my monitor with (from memory) the Wii's IR transmitter bar held to my forehead. It was a lovely little taste of what might have been.. although we're still waiting!

kakarot 9y ago
I was more fascinated with his projected touchscreen using a pressure-activated LED at the end of a pen. He's quite the visionary.

Lewton 9y ago

I'm torn, there's literally a link to Johnny Lee's work in the article. So your comment doesn't add anything. But a lot of people read only the comments (or the comments before the article) so your comment does add value Is it a good HN comment or not? :D

bringtheaction 9y ago
It’s an acceptable kind of HN comment. A link in the article is generally easy to miss and probably others missed it too. Admittedly the article did talk enough about the other thing that it’d be pretty hard to miss if you read the whole thing, but I think we can forgive it still. Perhaps the parent to your comment opened the page and saw the video but didn’t bother to read the article. I think that’s fine too. I always read comments first and in fact quite often I read the comments only. As long as we don’t derail the discussion completely by starting a top-level comment about how we perceive something based on the title alone I think it’s fine. That includes it being fine to mention things that you are reminded of by the title as long as you phrase it correctly. In my opinion of course.
hungerstrike 9y ago
Your own comment is so self-important that I stopped thinking about the article at all and moved onto thinking about how much I despise people. So your comment adds less than nothing IMO.
- Lewton 9y ago
  Agreed that my comment has little to no value But I was genuinely curious how other people felt :)
ChrisRR 9y ago
Oops! I admit I skimmed the text and looked at the pretty pictures.

mncharity 9y ago

You can play with this in browser.[1][2][3] And there's OpenCV.js.[4] But I more often simply put a small square of yellow gaffer's tape between my eyebrows, and do color tracking.[5] Accurate, reliable, and cpu/battery cheap. And for expert UIs, one doesn't have to emulate reality. So you might exaggerate parallax, be non-linear or discontinuous, etc. There might be a much larger vocabulary available, than merely "look through the small portal" and "make secondary content conditional on viewing angle". Maybe. Why might you want this? Consider your primary "desktop" environment shifting into HMDs. But you still need to mix in screen time, to give your eyes a break. It would hypothetically be nice to have similar UI idioms on screen. Especially as your tooling becomes less and less like current 2D ones. [1] old similar demo (broken on FF) http://auduno.github.com/headtrackr/examples/targets.html http://auduno.github.com/headtrackr/examples/targets.html video: https://vimeo.com/44049736 https://vimeo.com/44049736 [2] current tracking-only demo https://trackingjs.com/examples/face_camera.html https://trackingjs.com/examples/face_camera.html [3] eye/gaze tracking (demos at bottom; but for me, they require good lighting, and beard removal) https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/ https://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/ using https://www.auduno.com/clmtrackr/examples/clm_video.html https://www.auduno.com/clmtrackr/examples/clm_video.html [4] opencv.js https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html https://docs.opencv.org/master/d5/d10/tutorial_js_root.html [5] color tracking https://trackingjs.com/examples/color_camera.html https://trackingjs.com/examples/color_camera.html