Comments on: Mitch Kapor Bringing 3D Cameras to Second Life http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/03/10/mitch-kapor-bringing-3d-cameras-to-second-life/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:45:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: dandellion Kimban http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/03/10/mitch-kapor-bringing-3d-cameras-to-second-life/#comment-346 dandellion Kimban Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:00:58 +0000 http://dusanwriter.ca/?p=340#comment-346 3D cameras sound as a nice thing. Though "augmented reality" and some of the expectations are actually a bad and clumsy idea, nice, simple to use and affordable mocap hardware could improve the world and our communication. We'll see how development of both hardware and the interface will go. After all, it's all about <a href="http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/3d-cameras-for-good-and-for-bad" rel="nofollow">what we want to achieve</a>. 3D cameras sound as a nice thing. Though “augmented reality” and some of the expectations are actually a bad and clumsy idea, nice, simple to use and affordable mocap hardware could improve the world and our communication. We’ll see how development of both hardware and the interface will go. After all, it’s all about what we want to achieve.

]]> By: dusanwriter http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/03/10/mitch-kapor-bringing-3d-cameras-to-second-life/#comment-345 dusanwriter Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:26:59 +0000 http://dusanwriter.ca/?p=340#comment-345 Yes, thanks for that. There's an interesting discussion over at Croquet about some of this as well so it seems like there's growing work on the interface devices. Emotiv is getting a lot of play and there was another device out of Germany that worked off brain waves as well. Should be an interesting year for the, um, controllers. Yes, thanks for that. There’s an interesting discussion over at Croquet about some of this as well so it seems like there’s growing work on the interface devices. Emotiv is getting a lot of play and there was another device out of Germany that worked off brain waves as well. Should be an interesting year for the, um, controllers.

]]> By: Porsupah Ree http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2008/03/10/mitch-kapor-bringing-3d-cameras-to-second-life/#comment-344 Porsupah Ree Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:20:18 +0000 http://dusanwriter.ca/?p=340#comment-344 There's an element of this in demo clips for some Logitech webcams, eg: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gn2TyEyHw - begins with facial attachments (eyepatch, monocle, etc), then moves into complete replacement avatars. Unfortunately, the guy doesn't move around too much, but the facetracking can still be seen. The software manages reasonably well with tracking lips and eyebrows, too, though sometimes seems to give people something of a tic. None the less impressive for that, though! There’s an element of this in demo clips for some Logitech webcams, eg:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gn2TyEyHw - begins with facial attachments (eyepatch, monocle, etc), then moves into complete replacement avatars. Unfortunately, the guy doesn’t move around too much, but the facetracking can still be seen. The software manages reasonably well with tracking lips and eyebrows, too, though sometimes seems to give people something of a tic. None the less impressive for that, though!

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