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Subject: Re: Panoramas via VR systems
From: Mark Grob <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:14:42 -0400

I have had occasion to prove in a university department a Virtual Reality system with glasses and head traker sys. A friend of mine show me a spherical panorama image with this VR sys. it Was Wonderfull!!!

VR Player 1.4 software and VR Bundle... good stuff.

I was into the scene, into the pano!!! I saw the ground, the sky... I moved my head quickly and the sensation was fantastic!!! From then, I think in different possibilities for to implement VR with panos. I think that e-glasses and the traker head are a combination natural with the spherical pano world. The bad notice is that are a little bit expensive yet :-(

Price is relative to volume and cost to benefit. Most trackers are sold for large industry visualization... ($50,000+ projects which the tracker is a faction of the cost).

I see in Internet differents cheap head traker sys (by example Intertrax2, a USB cheap tracker of InterSense, near 1000 Eur)

Be weary of what you purchase on the web... Some used trackers sold on AKA ebay are sometime broken and you can get stuck with the product. Some other cheaper solutions do not offer the quality of motion the that Intertrax2 has. Most other cheap solutions are just joysticks and only work as relative motion (compares it value from the last time it was polled)... this causes drifting and not exact motion.

Will be very difficult to program a control of panoramas via this tracker for quicktime or java viewers?

The tracker software is already out there for quicktime (and it's free)... and the Java viewer (has been done) is not recommend because most users do not have VR trackers when browsing the web... which defeats the purpose.

If it is possible, adding a head tracker USB to the portable computer (my Tibook) or Tablet PC, we will have a virtual window for to see panoramas!!!

I am running an Eyetrex250w and Intertrax2 on my Tibook. And it can also run on a Tablet PC. With the tablet you can simple attached the Intertrax2 and run VRplayer1.4 *free* (www.vrshell.com) and you would not need the VR Glasses if you want the laptop display to act as the window.

(When will move our computer, our panorama will show the corresponding portion.)

Already does... problem is price point. If you can figure out a cheaper solution tell me... I am always looking.

-Mark Grob
www.vrshell.com
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	>Panoramas via VR systems (From: Ignacio Escobar Pizarro <email@hidden>)

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