Head-tracking ensures the position of the player and sends the virtual ball into the right area of the net with each movement.
The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).
The company is also (without DFKI) developing a virtual reality environment that uses a pair of active-shutter glasses and a head-tracking camera to let you wander around cave-like structures from the comfort of the lab.
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Hardware controls include power, selection and volume up and down, while the smartglasses also gauge 3-degrees of freedom through head-tracking, alongside an integrated compass and GPS. The built-in camera is capable of 1080p video in 16:9 aspect ratio, although it'll be able to capture stills too.
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In order to get the functionality it needed, APX grafted a 5 megapixel camera, mic and a full suite of motion sensors to provide nine-axis head tracking onto a Moverio headset.
Game Developers Conference 2013 organizers have announced the recent addition of two talks from Valve that discuss porting Team Fortress 2 to VR goggles - plus research and development challenges for head-mounted displays and tracking systems.
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We took it for a quick flight through some canyons in an F-16 and, though we nearly blacked out a few times and came close to losing our cookies thanks to the over-sensitive head tracking setup, we have to admit the HOTAS was quite a joy to use.
"If you make an assertion that an ETF is the most efficient way to invest in a particular strategy, you better have the numbers at your fingertips, " says Dave Nadig, head of research for ETF-tracking firm IndexUniverse, who has presented at several Qwafafew meetings.
With its full head and motion tracking support, the technology is a milestone for real-time gaze interaction with virtual avatars or 3D gaming applications.
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For private hire and sleeping twelve, head out cayman tracking by motorized canoe, swim with pink river dolphins - the boto rosa -- or try a spot of piranha fishing before taking to the skies in a Cessna Amphibian to experience the jungle like a toucan.
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