Category Archives: Hardware

Interesting interview with +John Carmack on Oculus Rift – new dev kit, position tracking…

By | October 18, 2013

Interesting interview with +John Carmack on Oculus Rift – new dev kit, position tracking … (Via @fdoganis) Oculus Rift’s John Carmack says a new Rift dev kit is in the works, sees consumer model running Android (video) Oculus Rift’s new Chief Technology Officer John Carmack says a new Oculus Rift dev kit is in the… Read More »

Some more technical info about #CastAR (thanks to @nchan)

By | October 16, 2013

Some more technical info about #CastAR (thanks to @nchan) Testing the CastAR Augmented Reality Glasses – Tested.com Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, the inventors of the CastAR augmented reality glasses, stop by our offices to talk about the project’s Kickstarter, their latest hardware prototypes, and how they envision gamers using augmented reality in their homes.… Read More »

Interview with +Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR (starts at 7:38)

By | October 16, 2013

Interview with +Jeri Ellsworth on CastAR (starts at 7:38)http://revision3.com/tekzilla/cast-ar-vr-demo 3D Gaming Glasses That Don’t Suck! Stop YouTube Buffering Problems. Make Animated GIFs from Video Clips. Access Your Hard Drives Anywhere. 3D Gaming Technology That Doesn’t Suck! Stop YouTube Buffering Problems. Make Animated GIFs from Any Video Clip. Access Your Hard Drives Over the Internet. Best… Read More »

Razer Hydra HMD hack

By | September 16, 2012

Razer Hydra is a pretty decent 6DOF tracker (position + orientation) for the price, so a natural choice. However, the controllers do not lend themselves very well for tracking props or an HMD due to their size and shape and no different sensor is available from Razer. Some people have attempted to disassemble the controller… Read More »

First foray into SMT soldering …

By | October 20, 2011

I have managed to score one of the free FT2232 breakout boards from Dangerous Prototypes and it has arrived some time later in mail. While I didn’t have an immediate need for another USB interface, I have decided to build the board as an SMT soldering practice. Most of the parts are 0805 and 1206… Read More »

libndofdev-0.3

By | August 10, 2010

I have released version libndofdev-0.3 after two years. It seems that the kernel developers have changed the Linux input driver and the SpaceNavigator sends the more logical EV_ABS instead of EV_REL events in recent kernels (confirmed in 2.6.35). This version supports both cases. I have also updated the example in the SpaceNavigator post accordingly. Download… Read More »