What Are You Doing Right Now

[thwr]

Just bought a pack of high power infrared diodes (Osram SFH 4556P) and hacked a few webcams (removed the IR filter and added a filter for visible light made from an old 3.5" floppy disk).

Great and cheap head-tracking setup.

[MattSpeller]

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

[thwr]

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

[coliver]

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

[thwr]

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

[coliver]

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

[thwr]

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMr-tpuLa3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJfuP7YgPA
Youtube Video

You also need the CL-EYE driver if you want to use this cam
https://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/

[coliver]

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMr-tpuLa3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJfuP7YgPA
Youtube Video

You also need the CL-EYE driver if you want to use this cam
https://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/

Yep my plan was to pick up a cheap ps3 eye and some IR LEDs.

[thwr]

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr external tracking? from beacons etc in the room?

No, the cam tracks the IR diodes which are attached to the headset. I like this method the most, because it works almost independent from environmental lighting.

Are you using FreeTrackIR? Or something else?

OpenTrack. FreeTrack is causing issues with ArmA 3

That's exactly what I want to build a setup like this for. Arma3 and FalconBMS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMr-tpuLa3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJfuP7YgPA
Youtube Video

You also need the CL-EYE driver if you want to use this cam
https://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/

Yep my plan was to pick up a cheap ps3 eye and some IR LEDs.

Get the ones I mentioned before. They are flat out the best you can get (SFH 4556P, P is the wide angle version)

[coliver]

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SFH 4556P

Getting those online? Seems to be only one retailer that I can see.

[NerdyDad]

Cleaning my server room, jamming to some oldies.

[thwr]

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SFH 4556P

Getting those online? Seems to be only one retailer that I can see.

Should be Mouser, I've ordered them there.

http://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Osram-Opto-Semiconductor/SFH-4556P/

[Minion Queen]

Happy Tuesday. Lots to do today. Lots of posting today everywhere! Then a meeting in Fort Worth at 1:30 this afternoon.

[dafyre]

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Happy Tuesday. Lots to do today. Lots of posting today everywhere! Then a meeting in Fort Worth at 1:30 this afternoon.

Still in Texas? I thought you were back in NY again!

I can't keep track of anybody these days!

[dafyre]

I got to have the immense joy of replacing a rotten and moldy section of roof yesterday. That was fun. I love doing physical labor in short spurts. What we expected to be a simple job turned out to be far from it -- as is the case with most things.

[hobbit666]

Looking for two LED TV's and maybe some RasPi for display wall to show MPLS connection status and Zabbix graphs. (maybe more things as I add like SQL monitoring etc)

[travisdh1]

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got to have the immense joy of replacing a rotten and moldy section of roof yesterday. That was fun. I love doing physical labor in short spurts. What we expected to be a simple job turned out to be far from it -- as is the case with most things.

Yeah, no replacing just a small section of roof most of the time.

[dafyre]

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got to have the immense joy of replacing a rotten and moldy section of roof yesterday. That was fun. I love doing physical labor in short spurts. What we expected to be a simple job turned out to be far from it -- as is the case with most things.

Yeah, no replacing just a small section of roof most of the time.

Yea. We caught the mold before it made its way into the house, so, we'll see. First rain on it is expected this week.

[Minion Queen]

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Happy Tuesday. Lots to do today. Lots of posting today everywhere! Then a meeting in Fort Worth at 1:30 this afternoon.

Still in Texas? I thought you were back in NY again!

I can't keep track of anybody these days!

Possibly only for the rest of this week. We will see. Here to move our Company headquarters to TX.

[dafyre]

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Happy Tuesday. Lots to do today. Lots of posting today everywhere! Then a meeting in Fort Worth at 1:30 this afternoon.

Still in Texas? I thought you were back in NY again!

I can't keep track of anybody these days!

Possibly only for the rest of this week. We will see. Here to move our Company headquarters to TX.

Which one? NTG or GroveSocial?