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Step 10In Practice: Depth Perception
Outside Tests:
Now we took the setup outside where we had some room to run. Objects look farther away than they really are. This is due to the wide angle lens on the camera.
We were able to cautiously run, but after 5 minutes in the suit you started to feel comfortable. Because you only have one camera, you lose a lot of your depth perception. But that is not the only way we sense depth, and soon my senses we adapting. It is amazing what the brain can do.
Looking back upon the tests I remember being 'sucked' into the camera. I felt like "I" was the camera. It was odd. I felt taller. In fact, because you were at a different level than the camera, it was easy to get your dynamics messed up, and sometimes we almost fell over.
After wearing the setup for a while and removing the goggles there is an odd feeling of your point of reference being adjusted. As if your consciousness were being sucked back into your head. Wild stuff.
Now we took the setup outside where we had some room to run. Objects look farther away than they really are. This is due to the wide angle lens on the camera.
We were able to cautiously run, but after 5 minutes in the suit you started to feel comfortable. Because you only have one camera, you lose a lot of your depth perception. But that is not the only way we sense depth, and soon my senses we adapting. It is amazing what the brain can do.
Looking back upon the tests I remember being 'sucked' into the camera. I felt like "I" was the camera. It was odd. I felt taller. In fact, because you were at a different level than the camera, it was easy to get your dynamics messed up, and sometimes we almost fell over.
After wearing the setup for a while and removing the goggles there is an odd feeling of your point of reference being adjusted. As if your consciousness were being sucked back into your head. Wild stuff.
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Nice project. It remember me a project I made. I used a small circuit from a broken IR remote controled car (+- 30grams) with a TIP4*** for drive the camera righ/left with a 9-12v geerbox from a BBq chicken turning rod... U Know... It turn veeeeerrrrrryyyyyyy slow. And used the front/reverse for the zoom
I don't what imagine the feeling with as wiimote attached to your head/neck!!! Remember ROBOCOP
too much video games
Someday we will all have 3rd person viewpoints of ourselves on our HUDs, from public cameras and personal flying drones. :D