{"id":3297,"date":"2014-07-31T19:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2014-07-31T19:18:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:18:32","slug":"rift-sensor-holodeck-vr-nirvana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/31\/rift-sensor-holodeck-vr-nirvana\/","title":{"rendered":"Rift + Sensor = Holodeck: VR nirvana?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things arrived in the post today, on the same day. (incidentally, one via FedEx, which was great, and one via UPS, which was dire &#8211; and gave my package to a stranger even though I was in the building WAITING for them to arrive).<\/p>\n<p>Here they are, side by side:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185311small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140731_185311small\" width=\"600\" height=\"811\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185311small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185311small-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185311small-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Oculus Rift DevKit 2 probably needs no introduction, but who&#8217;s its friend? That would be <a href=\"http:\/\/structure.io\/\">a Structure Sensor<\/a>. Here we have:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Depth-perception 3D view which follows your head + body\n<li>Depth-filming 3D camera which captures video + distance\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Sensor is being advertised mostly for Architects and high-end Furniture Designers, to scan\/model\/tweak real-world objects faster, but &#8230; if we put them together:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185338small.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20140731_185338small\" width=\"600\" height=\"811\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185338small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185338small-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20140731_185338small-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;then it gets exciting. Now we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 3D world <em>with depth vision for your eyes<\/em>\n<li>A live 3D scan <em>with depth<\/em> of the real-world\n<\/ul>\n<p>i.e. an Oculus Rift game where you can walk around the room, because you can see the objects, walls, etc. The Structure guys did a limited example of this scanning only your hands (which in itself is a huge leap forwards for the Rift! No more controller-hell!) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/structure.io\/static\/occipital\/images\/v1\/home\/home-hacker-screenshot.jpg\">see this picture<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a lot of work to get that working nicely, but it&#8217;s the potential here that I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p>But you&#8217;re not seeing them on a camera &#8211; these are coming in true 3D, so I can paint them in software as anything I want. Something like this, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypergridbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Holodeck.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>Back to the real world&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Sadly, despite announcing Mac support in April, Oculus so far has only made their DK2 run on Windows. And my Windows machine just died. And Apple won&#8217;t allow my Mac to run Windows8 (it&#8217;s probably a rearguard action to prevent you from going to the Dark Side (of Gates), I expect).<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s nothing I can do with this kit right now. Not until I can earn some money and buy a Windows PC (sadly: powerful one needed to drive the DK2 hi-res screens) &#8211; a serious backfiring of Apple&#8217;s &#8220;strategy&#8221; there. But if they&#8217;re going to shaft the consumer, they probably deserve what they get :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things arrived in the post today, on the same day. (incidentally, one via FedEx, which was great, and one via UPS, which was dire &#8211; and gave my package to a stranger even though I was in the building WAITING for them to arrive). Here they are, side by side:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9,20,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}