Awesome sensor to incoporate

Lambo429 · 2004-07-15T19:57:21

I was at my friends house the other day and his dad happened to be at home. His dad makes sensors and one of his sensors has a compass, yaw, roll, pitch, velocity sensor. It is all the size of a double a battery. http://www.clymer.cc/catalog/index.php#terrella He demonstrated it using a program where it control the orientation of a 3d tea pot. It also had a velocity and compass reading gauge. When i saw this the possibilities for this seemed unlimited. One of these sensors goes for 1200 but it seemed like the integration of these into computer games was endless. So me and my friend decided that 3d pong over the internet was the best application of this. A sensore is placed on your hand. You stand infront of a computer screen and you see a ping pong ball coming toward you. THe outline of a paddle is displayed on the screen and the velocity sensor measures how hard you hit it. The linear velocity sensors can tell where the paddle is and the yaw, roll, pitch sensors can tell if you hit the ball at an angle. Somone across the world has the same setup and you play pong. Im bored and thought this was a good idea so i decided to post. Anyone who has 1200 bucks can get one and it comes with the software needed (plug and play). THe other idea i had was a control for counter strike where it sensed movement and adjusted your crosshair. I know this will work cause i asked him and he designed it and said that the pong idea will work. He told me that it would be awesome if this could work for a convention that he goes too.

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Started by Lambo429 July 14, 2004 04:34 PM

11 comments, last by NLDEV 20 years, 6 months ago

Kars

184

July 15, 2004 07:44 AM

I had remembered hearing something about a 3D mouse a while ago so I did a quick search. Got a few hits, all around the $2000 range. They were mostly used for CAD and other VR/3D type software.

Would be cool too see a space flying game/sim using something like this.

http://www.vrealities.com/3dmouse.html

KarsQ: What do you get if you cross a tsetse fly with a mountain climber?A: Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scalar.

owl

376

July 15, 2004 02:40 PM

You could put sensors in your hands and feet and have a nice fight with Ryu... :)

[size="2"]I like the Walrus best.

NLDEV

520

July 15, 2004 07:57 PM

Quote:
Original post by owl
You could put sensors in your hands and feet and have a nice fight with Ryu... :)

Now that would be awesome.

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