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Re: Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking

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Post by Auracle »

president_zippy wrote: post #8
il_nets wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I'm Sten, one of the creators. We built this because we wanted 3D experiences without needing a VR headset. The approach: use your webcam to track where you're looking, and adjust the 3D perspective to match. Demo: https://portality.io/dragoncourtyard/ (Allow camera, move your head left/right) It creates motion parallax - the same depth cue your brain uses when you look around a real object. Feels like looking…

It was definitely useful and appreciated on the "New" Nintendo 3DS XL, which also used a camera to track your eye movements and adjust the divergence accordingly. I hate the fact that Nintendo abandoned this technology because experiencing Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64 in 3D was world-changing to me. I'd say I'm not the only one who misses this technology in games, because a used New 3DS XL costs at least $200 on e…

Samsung recently released a monitor with similar technology, I believe, as a FYI.

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Post by rspoerri »

From my experience this only ever looks good in a recorded video. Because we are used to assume that the real object captured within the video is perceivable in a stereoscopic form. But it‘s not. The real usage of head and viewtracking is as a controller, not to improve immersion.

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Post by bigyabai »

president_zippy wrote: post #8
il_nets wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I'm Sten, one of the creators. We built this because we wanted 3D experiences without needing a VR headset. The approach: use your webcam to track where you're looking, and adjust the 3D perspective to match. Demo: https://portality.io/dragoncourtyard/ (Allow camera, move your head left/right) It creates motion parallax - the same depth cue your brain uses when you look around a real object. Feels like looking…

It was definitely useful and appreciated on the "New" Nintendo 3DS XL, which also used a camera to track your eye movements and adjust the divergence accordingly. I hate the fact that Nintendo abandoned this technology because experiencing Ocarina of Time and Star Fox 64 in 3D was world-changing to me. I'd say I'm not the only one who misses this technology in games, because a used New 3DS XL costs at least $200 on e…

The technology is still alive and well in some genres, particularly flight sims. One common free solution is to run OpenTrack with the included neural net webcam tracker, which plugs into TrackIR-enabled apps and works like a charm.

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Post by jampekka »

kgarten wrote: post #4
jampekka wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The demo gives just a blank screen on Android Firefox, Kiwi and Chrome.

It works for me, just needs a time to load.

Ah, thanks! Got it now on a better connection. A loading indicator would ease confusion.

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Post by poglet »

brenschluss wrote: post #9

BTW, the OG demo from Johnny Lee is from 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Thanks for posting, I was sure I recalled something like this form a long time ago. I also build my self a FreeTrack headset (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeTrack) around this same time to play the Arma / Operating Flashpoint games using IR LED's attached to a hat that my webcam would track.
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