Recently, I attended PAXE. While at this wondrous if not line ridden event, I encountered a company which specializes in making furniture for gamers. I've since begun a dialog with them to create a housing for my large format MT table. Due to this recent development I'm going to be mum for a bit as I work out the legal details of what might be a business deal for making more of these toys.
So enough about that for now. Here's the tech developments from the last 24 hours of work.
- Reconfigured my mirror array using a front surface mirror acquired from an old projection TV. This new configuration resolves a fair amount of the screen "blur" (ghosting) which was there with the plexi-rear faced mirror.
- Adjusted placement of the mirror and projector slightly to maximize the total display dimension. I've not got a solid 46" diagonal 16:9 screen showing 100% horizontally and 98% vertically. This means there is some cut off of the desktop environment in the vertical direction.
- Tested fiducial with CCV 1.2 (fiducial) using two PS3 Eye cams and 3.6 mm lenses. This worked out quite well. I was able to track positive images (white background with black lines) but not negative images. Interesting. The downside to this test was the loss of a fair amount of screen real-estate. The 3.6m lenses lead to loss of approx. 4" from the perimeter of the screen. For a taller build this wouldn't be a problem as the cameras could be lower, but with my coffee table and projector choose it is not possible to diminish the screen size any more then I have.
- Swapping the 3.6mm lenses for my 2.1mm lenses without moving the camera bodies actually resolved my stitching problem! With the new placement I now have full screen touch from corner to shiny corner!
- Shot some video of RPTools and Fiducials in action. I'll be posting this video as soon as I get a chance to compress it into a reasonable size for sharing (from an HD camera).
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