RE: [Virtools] sony's eyetoy tested with virtools?

["hooox" <info@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

This system is absolutely great to make stuff.  In Belgium there's a
compagny specialised in this technique called 'alterface'
(www.alterface.com)
They make absolutely great things with this for kids on events and
exhibitions with balloons you have to hit etc...
It works on a keying system : first taking a shot of the room empty and then
calculating the overlay of your presence.
Should be absolutely great to have this working on virtools.

Dimitri

Hooox
3D & Virtual Reality

17 a rue Beranger
B-1190 Brussels
tel 0032 2 343 36 17
fax 0032 2 343 36 37
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www.hooox.com

-----Message d'origine-----
De : owner-virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]De la part de Duncan
Leckie
Envoye : mercredi 15 octobre 2003 2:47
A : p.hogenboom@xxxxxx; 'chris kievid';
virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Objet : RE: [Virtools] sony's eyetoy tested with virtools?

Don't know if this helps but perhaps the Sony toy simply performs
Edge detection in real-time for every streamed frame from the camera.
The largest intensity, detected edges could be considered as a bounding box
for an object, Such as your body And hence collision detection could added.
When their overlayed image of an object like a fish is copied into the frame
a simple calculation could be made about if the object interests the edge
detected object ie you
In 2D space as that object moves about the 2D image.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Patrick Hogenboom
Sent: Monday, 13 October 2003 12:48 AM
To: chris kievid; virtools-user-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Virtools] sony's eyetoy tested with virtools?

Well, I think that the eyetoy camera is nothing more than a normal webcam.
The real deal is the software that processes the incoming video feed and
turns it into
controller signals.
As you (most likely) don't get the sourcecode, you can't use the software
on a PC...

Sorry to sound like a kiljoy ;)

Ciao, Patrick

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:52:52 +0200, chris kievid <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Having read some articles about sony's "eyetoy" I became interested in
> using it as a way to trace people in an environment and use these
> parameters as input of our games. The EyeToy is a WebCam-type that sits
> on top of, or beneath, your TV and plugs into the USB port of a
> PlayStation2. Once it's turned on it projects a live image of your room
> and whoever is standing around in it onto one of the games. But that's
> not the half of it. Once the chosen player has positioned themselves
> onscreen and the selected game has begun, what's happening on-screen is
> controlled by their body movements--the joypad isn't involved at all.
>
> So well this seems like an interesting thing, I don't know if it will
> work, so before buying it I was wondering if some of you have tested
> this camera before (on a windows computer system)
>
> Gr chris



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