Can I use FLARToolKit to create Motion Capture like Eyetoy?

by rez | Sun, 08/02/2009 - 17:55

This thread is a resum from this original from Fabien Sayer at Google Groups.

QUESTION

Hi everybody.
I'm a beginner with FLARToolKit and I've read many tutorials to learn how to use FLARToolKit.
I've found a lot about multiple marker, or multiple object, and many things, but I can't find anything about how to use FLARToolKit without pattern, like eyetoy video games on playstation.
Zugara use it to create an app for online shopping:
http://weareorganizedchaos.com/index.php/2009/06/23/zugara-launches-o...
I've tried to do it, I've found different ideas, but I don't know what is possible :
- capture a part of the webcam video and use it like it was a pattern, but functions used to do that need a real pattern (.pat)
- capture a part of webcam video and make a real pattern file using source code of the application to make pattern file...
- Maybe FLARToolKit is not use to do that?

answer from Makc

Flartoolkit needs one or more patterns, you cant do anything but recognizing these patterns 3d locations with flartoolkit. Flartoolkit needs one or more markers.

Their "buttons" are (or rather may be) actually very simple codes that simply detect if there is a motion in certain area. some examples of this are very old (from flash 8 days - long before flartoolkit appeared), you can find them all over the internet, for example http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2005/11/flash_8_webcam_1.html

Functions actually need bytearray. look up tarotaro online marker generator, rip out relevant code and you are set.

answer from Blake

I release my own stuff under OneZeroThrice, but from 9 to 5, I'm Zugara's Senior Software Engineer. :)  I wrote ZugMo, the motion detection engine that you're asking about.
I can't give up any of the inner workings of ZugMo, because of my Non-Disclosure Agreement with Zugara, but I can say that, to an extent, Makc is right.  There are some optimizations that allow ZugMo to work alongside ARtisan and FLARToolkit without loss of frame rate.  Work in the direction he provided and you might find a solution.

 

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