New School Year

With the start of the new school year, I'm looking to build this project into my schedule and make some progress on design and construction.  This week  I've spent time familiarizing myself with properties and limitations of servo motors before I make any purchases, looking to define my needs and objectives and how these will fit in with them.

I've also been looking into ways of interfacing the Rift and servos/motors/etc, current winning plan is using an Arduino microcontroller to run the servos, with Unity (and a special software pacakge) as a go-between to interface the Rift and Arduino.  Unity supports the Rift and Arduino with the correct packages, so this seems like a logical way to reduce the complexity in software.

Starting my Robotics course at UC this week! Looking forward to see how it connects to this project and seeing what I can leverage to help me along my way.

More updates to come, exciting time to be in VR!

- Smith

Welcome to VP Camera!

First post!

This blog is dedicated to the research and development of a virtual presence camera, using an Oculus Rift and various components to create a webcam capable of 3DOF motion, integration with the Rift tracking, and stereo view.  I'm definitely an amateur, so this is going to be a learning experience, hopefully I'll have something to show by the end!

I hope to make semiweekly posts tracking my progress, posting photos, etc.

Each post I hope to address these points:
a) progress made
b) what worked
c) what didn’t work
d) what the next step will be.

Stay tuned for some amateur mistakes and some really cool tech!

- Smith