Interactive Art - Homework 7

Optitrack Motion Capture Sensor
http://www.optitrack.com/

The Optitrack Sensors capture motions. This can be an interesting feature for several projects. Unfortuantelly the sensors are not affordable for every students:
The price starts with about 500 USD for the Flex Series.


The results are outstanding if there the technical expertise is provided.


Here is an example video where Optitrack Sensors come to use.

The sensors track the points on the subjects face. On software-side this points are converted into a 3d model to which an animated texture is applied.

This model is projected back on the face. While moving the head in a certain direction, the 3d shape begins to change and so does the projection back onto the face.

The effect is really cool and has some kind of augmented reality feeling!






MyvIdea:

Glasses that project 3d objects into real environment. If you wear these glasses there is made a 2d projection on each of the two glasses which appears in 3d.

An example how it works:

If you see a cube, normally the images a human sees are 2-dimensional. The only thing that creates depth and lets images we see look 3-dimensional is the fact, that we see an object from two sides actually, because we have two eyes, which are not at the same point.

Spoken in mathematical formulars: If you have 2 points (our eyes) and an angle (errated by our brain of a comparison of the images of the object we see from two sides) of a triangle you can errate the distance to the third point  (the object we actually see) of the triangle.

So we see two images of maybe an objects like this cube from two positions.

The depth or in this case 3d look is created by our brain which combines this two images.
What finally is created is a 3d image of the scene.

What basicially the glass is projecting an 3d objects on each of the two glasses. 

-The angle and size of each projection of the object defines its distance to the viewer. Bigger angle = its nearer

-The position on the glasses defines its angle to the viewer

On this way, if the viever wears the glasses he will see 3d objects in real space. They will look like if they were part of the real world