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kingmudsy  ·  1679 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 11, 2019

    Is Pokemon a cool card game?

Outside of her gifted nerd school? No, not really. Inside? Tough to tell! If there are people she wants to spend time with, and those people play it...Then I guess it's a cool card game for her!

    some kind of head tracker

If you can find an old Kinect (Microsoft's retort to the Wii), they actually have pretty good body movement tracking software. Might be your best commercial option without spending thousands.

Enjoy the libations, keep us updated on that cabinet :)





cgod  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

A web cam with head tracking will get you most of the way there. The web cam method only give perspective in a plane while a kinetic will add a z axis to the perspective change.

I'm a long way from implementing head tracking so it isn't much of a worry. I suppose I'll keep my eye out for web cams and kinetic's while I check Good Will for a back plate and for matrix monitor.

user-inactivated  ·  1673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You could just use 2 webcams. OpenCV can do most of the heavy lifting for you. The term to google is "disparity map".

kingmudsy  ·  1678 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Are you trying to implement it from scratch? Seems like that might be difficult, although admittedly my ML practical experience is mostly with time series rather than image recognition.

Best of luck, I can't wait to see what you make!

cgod  ·  1673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not from scratch.

People have been doing this for a decade but the web of free software that runs a full cabinet is a crazy mess.

Everyone's set up is a little different and it seems like you'll never find anyone that exactly shares your setup.