Glove3d - Lame title, cool project

porkie · Post by **porkie** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:37 pm

I'm part of a team making an interface for a VR-glove with Blender, using python script. We are nearing completion of the project (School project).

What you will be able to do is grab and move/rotate objects in 3D and also move/rotate the view both using the VR-glove. We wanted to implement manipulation of vertices too, but didn't have time.

What I'm wondering is if anyone is interested in me filming the use of it and posting links to the clips here? I just thought I'd ask, 'cause if noone is interested, I won't bother spending time filming it

kidb · Post by **kidb** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:50 pm

I am even interested in using the script with a P5 glove.

porkie · Post by **porkie** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:52 am

Havent seen the P5 glove, is it related to the 5DT Dataglove? As our glove is custom made, the "hardware" side of the code might not be usefull to you, but the python scripts can probably be used quite directly. All you need is to output the position and rotation of the glove as a 4x4 matrix. I'll post the the code too, once the project is done

jesterKing · Post by **jesterKing** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:22 am

And schematics + build instructions too, pretty please?

/Nathan

porkie · Post by **porkie** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:04 am

I'll post the whole project report (200-300 page pdf) if you want. The glove is quite easy to make if you have the Flock of Birds Sensor (http://www.ascension-tech.com/products/flockofbirds.php). Just a few wires connected to the parallell port

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:21 am

Off topic but related (and I hope interesting)...

LASER Tracking
Cool Stuff

arangel · Post by **arangel** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:02 pm

Very interesting. Looking foward to see tohe docs.

arangel · Post by **arangel** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:03 pm

Very interesting. Looking foward to see the docs.

ysvry · Post by **ysvry** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 8:41 am

was thinking this could be handy for a virtual art studio too, so you could sculpt and paint with it.

kidb · Post by **kidb** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:01 am

porkie wrote:I'll post the whole project report (200-300 page pdf)

I can host them on blendertestbuilds.de, if you want to publish the docs.
You can send me the files or mailto kidb at kidb dot de for a login.

porkie · Post by **porkie** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:06 am

great thanks!
The project is now done, and we will present it for the customer tomorrow, so ill probably send it friday

amorphia · Post by **amorphia** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:08 pm

I am _very_ interesting in seeing the report, Porkie. I need to do something quite similar myself. I would very much appreciate it if you would email it to me! You can get my address on my web page.

Cheers,

Ben

kidb · Post by **kidb** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:21 pm

porkie wrote:great thanks!
The project is now done, and we will present it for the customer tomorrow, so ill probably send it friday

Did i miss something?

Skuggen · Post by **Skuggen** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:38 pm

Hi,
I worked on the project with porkie, and am now continuing development of it. Was the documentation for the project ever posted? If not, and there is still an interest, I could post them for you. Unfortunately we never made a video recording of the presentation, but maybe something could be arranged.

Blender.org

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