Position Trackers
The Joydick
At the risk of overstepping any and all boundaries of propriety, here are complete do-it-yourself build instructions for an "incredible" haptic feedback interface for your Atari console. With a bit of soldering and epoxy, you can add force...
Mnemonic’s MRG2.2 Upgrade – Augmented Reality + Kinect
Several months ago I shipped off an MRG2.2 to Mnemonic in the Ukraine. He said he wanted to do a few mods and some experimenting. Little did I know that he would put together a totally sweet augmented reality system, where the view inside the...
Setup A Fastrak – Fast!
For many years, and perhaps still today, the Polhemus Fastrak was/is the reference standard for low lag, high accuracy six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking. Used extensively to track head mounted displays and data gloves, this magnetic...
Build a 2 DOF Wireless Head Tracker – Cheap!
Not long ago I needed a whole bunch of head trackers for just one week. Not wanting to invest tens of thousands of dollars in high-end tracking systems, I came up with an easy DIY head tracking system constructed from the guts of a Gyration Air...
Ascension Technology SpacePad 6DOF Tracker Teardown
Six degree of freedom (x, y, z, azimuth, elevation, and roll) are hard and expensive to come by these days. Stuff like the Wii remote, iPhone, and Droid only track rotations, not fine position (yes the GPS will find you within +- 10 meters, but I'm talking...