Stereoscopic 3D head tracking with the Wii Remote

hankdendrijver Says:

Mar 15, 2010 - Overkill? Are you nuts? With headtracking only the image will be the same for your left and right eye, so you will still be looking at a plane. With stereoscopic depth added there isn't really any difference with reality! And you call that overkill? It's like Bill Gates' quote of the 70s: "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

DAudIcI Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - No thanks, I am perfectly okay. And yes, it IS an overkill. You already have a perfectly convenient way of perceiving depth: stereoscopy. Now, while this method works simultaneously with multiple viewers, head tracking is strictly single-person. Also while there are both general and specific drivers for computer software to use stereoscopy there is no general head tracking driver; you must implement it to each software.I can't really imagine wiggling my head while watching movies either...

DAudIcI Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - My point is, that while it greatly enhances your experience it is narrowing the user-base and the ways it can be used. There is no backwards compatibility, so it may be the future, but like with most new technology, it needs a lot to develop. And like I said I don't think it has a place in filming(being simultaneously multi-usered and the fact, that people like to watch movies motionlessly), so it is stuck with games, where if you can't mass-produce your idea it is already dead.

hankdendrijver Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - With stereoscopy only the perspective will always be off unless you are on the exact centerline of the screen, and with headtracking only the image will be flat on the screen.Yes, this is a one-person-only experience and yes it is game only. I think however that the market is big enough to implement this extra option to a POV game.For film this is of course nonsense, you could only perhaps correct for the off-screen distortion.

DAudIcI Says:

Mar 16, 2010 - Yeah, maybe, but don't you think first we'd need proper non-hacker hardware and software for head tracking? Or more importantly, wouldn't we need proper stereoscopic equipment and support widely available? Sure, there are some 3D monitors here and there, and there is the iZ3D driver, but the former is still not popular enough, while the later is far worse then it could be. I think you are thinking at least two steps further than where we are if you demand this technology in commercial use.

MutantKush Says:

Mar 22, 2010 - yeah but combined with stereoscopic 3d it will be more immersive and the image will pop out more. Plus the infered lights could be placed on the 3d glasses for the headtracking.

GronkAkowA Says:

Mar 23, 2010 - @chessmastor:You're so wrong. Head tracking increases the effect A LOT.

eldiablo9604 Says:

Mar 24, 2010 - great idea.... i have that TV btw.

eldiablo9604 Says:

Mar 24, 2010 - its all great but no matter what, if you have to make glasses for it, then its always discoloured.

warumono2305 Says:

Mar 25, 2010 - 0:33 lmao I never laughed so hard in my life, this guy is cracking me up.

grogtgs Says:

Apr 4, 2010 - I was in best buy the other day. I saw a 3d monitor. It comes with glasses and makes any game 3D

Monster597 Says:

Apr 13, 2010 - Johny Lee is a LEGEND now, i bet everyone now knows his name!

Raymint Says:

Apr 15, 2010 - The perspective is not correct if your head isn't the one being tracked.What's happened here is very simple - in an attempt to keep selling stereoscope to us, we're shown a shit example of headtracking (What you saw on that monitor was actually a video of VR headtracking. The camera was just moving about as if it were being tracked), and then that shit headtracking example being made into 3D.

Raymint Says:

Apr 15, 2010 - If VR headtracking blows up then it'll mean 3D gaming is simply a matter of lightweight software downloads (probably not even that) - and not the heavyweight hardware updates we're being told is worth investing in. Stereoscope is rubbish.

hofer1 Says:

May 2, 2010 - Of course Head Tracking can't be used in a movie, since it is pre-rendered. Head Tracking is suitable only for real time rendering games, targeted for one person. The main advantage is prince (1% of a stereoscopic 3D) and no need to wear stupid glasses.It is by far the most inteligent solution for PC gaming, but not suitable for movies or multiuser consoles.

RDCST Says:

May 21, 2010 - Mmmm....It looks like only one person can be in front of the screen and appreciate the 3D effect.

chrisManley01 Says:

Jun 9, 2010 - Portable Video Eyewear Glasses LCD (google that) but use body tracking on new xbox360 cam/sensor...VR

chrisManley01 Says:

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lupofoxgolf Says:

Jun 15, 2010 - Stereoscopic 3D + Head tracking + 360° would be something like the first holodeck... But Star Trek TNG was showing the future in a few hundreds years, so we are a little bit too fast.:-)

ipellaers Says:

Jun 21, 2010 - Too easy, and lame.

hofer1 Says:

Jul 15, 2010 - @r1ccardo I think you didn't understand my post. I said Head Tracking is not suitable for pre-rendered movies like Avatar and others you have saw on your 3D TV with googles. The technology used in shutter glasses is stereoscopy, not head tracking.

Jianju69 Says:

Sep 20, 2010 - I immediately wanted to do this upon seeing Johnny Lee's video too. You beat me to it! Nice work!

Nelrockz1 Says:

Apr 10, 2011 - please add the youtube 3d tag in so that people without red cyan glasses can use the cross eye method cheers

thevfxbro Says:

Jun 11, 2011 - thought you would like my channel and visual effects videosaaron

timstambaugh Says:

Feb 2, 2012 - Do 3d sterogrphic