MYOculus Bot
We've always wanted to see the world from another viewpoint. We've now made this possible for anyone, anywhere, with the help of the Myo, the Oculus Rift, and the Parrot Jumping Sumo.
The Technology
- Myo: The Gesture Control Armband
- Oculus Rift: The Virtual Reality Headset
- Parrot Jumping Sumo: The Transporter
For our hackathon project, we combined the camera from the Sumo with the Rift to provide an immersive experience. Using feedback from the Myo armband, we enabled intuitive user interface controls for the Parrot Jumping Sumo.
The Oculus Rift relies on stereoscopic images to make two different views seem like one 3D image. Notably, the Parrot Jumping Sumo only has one camera, making this combination a fundamentally ill-posed problem. We hacked around this in our favorite way: with software. We use LiveRiftView to manipulate one video on our desktop into two displays, one for each side of the Oculus Rift.
We fed the Myo controls into the Parrot Sumo with a program to translate Myo gestures into Sumo commands.
Notes
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The result is a seamless, intuitive, and immersive user interface to experience the world from a different angle.
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