On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Dana Moore <dana.virt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ditto an interest here. > Specifically what we are interested in doing is capturing a human user's > motion via a cam and turning a set of those into avatar controls (e.g., move > left/right/forward, fly, sit). Any useful inputs or comments would help get > us on track. > thanks > ElectricSheep Expedition > Am not sure if you could do this in realtime with one camera (without some sort of wearable tags) Here is my tweet from yesterday about a Siggraph paper on animation based on video keyframes/points: 3d #animation <http://twitter.com/search?q=%23animation> from 2d clips. http://bit.ly/9l5VPP - Their #Siggraph<http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Siggraph>paper: http://bit.ly <http://bit.ly/boe2wp> Mapping this back to SL, this would open a lot of possibilties up for animators. Oh... and an iPhone 4 or new iPod touch might be a good input device!! I just remembered that they now have a built in gyroscrope. There is certainly the API in iOS to send out a realtime stream of user movements... That would get you something you can intrepret as walking, running, turning, sitting, flying... > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Vex Streeter <vexstree...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Who's currently working on doing external control of viewer functions, >> especially avatar control? I know of a few people doing AR sorts of >> things that would qualify and some of the viewer-plugin and modularity >> work would certainly help. I'm going to be doing some viewer hacking to >> allow some additional input devices and would like to be as general as >> possible (and not reinvent the wheel). >> >> Many thanks >> Vex >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > > -- > Dana > "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > -- Daniel Smith - Sonoma County, California http://daniel.org/resume
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