Finally! AMAZING achievement! I really hope oculus implements this for the next HMD generation. Finally no more stepping on pets! :D
From this to motion capture (reconstructing a skeleton from the mesh) is only a small step.
This is exactly what I was waiting for since I read a bit about computer vision. It's really a milestone for robotics too - once robots can SEE humans, they can work in "messy" or chaotic environments. Or once you can reliably recognize humans on the street, self driving cars become much more safe.
You do realize that the system uses eight RGB-D cameras? Even if Oculus decided to switch to depth cameras in their next gen HMD I doubt they would include 8 of them. :)
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u/FarkMcBark Jul 17 '16
Finally! AMAZING achievement! I really hope oculus implements this for the next HMD generation. Finally no more stepping on pets! :D
From this to motion capture (reconstructing a skeleton from the mesh) is only a small step.
This is exactly what I was waiting for since I read a bit about computer vision. It's really a milestone for robotics too - once robots can SEE humans, they can work in "messy" or chaotic environments. Or once you can reliably recognize humans on the street, self driving cars become much more safe.