-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Melinda,
Melinda Green wrote: > I think some people are misunderstanding what is being asked for here. I > could be wrong myself but my understanding is that Philip and Merov's > intent is to simply translate user head movements into avatar gestures. > Even something as simple as recognizing when the user appears to be > nodding "yes" or shaking their head "no" and then triggering the > appropriate gestures would be extremely cool and worth implementing. That is not what I have understood and the Logitech video was not showing that neither. But you may be right - it would be good to get things clarified from Lindens. > I > didn't interpret anything in what was asked to suggest controlling the > camera, tracking gazes, or anything else. The camera control was in the original mail: Philip: > Is OpenCV the best package for extracting basic head > position/gesture information from a camera image stream? And his second mail: > This is what we want - simple head position and movement tracking from a > camera. I agree with the gaze tracking and the rest - that is a different kettle of fish that was asked about by other people. > It certainly looks as if all > sorts of interesting ideas are being generated and should definitely be > captured. I certainly don't want to stop the brainstorming, but I think > it would be helpful to first see how we could most easily trigger head > gestures from video input before we attempt to design the best, most > powerful API and implementations for full VR/MC support in SL. I think that there is a confusion about the "gesture" term. Gestures can mean SL gestures (essentially an animation + chat) and also movement over time performed by human that needs to be captured and recognized - an incredibly difficult job, much more difficult and complex than e.g. tracking a position of the head. Regards, Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKFsPJn11XseNj94gRAgDNAKDC2U18HTrCRjl0SRlpATECJaGhFACfVlBi dU1Af8B0kjFWYb4gNs93RKQ= =GJLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
