Those of you who have always wanted to move around Second Life while actuallymoving aroundmay be in luck . Linden Lab Chair Mitchell Kapor has team up with 3DV Systems to show the Zcam , an cheap video television camera that can adjudicate when you ’re leaning forward and backwards . No tidings yet on whether it can also sense when you ’re thrusting — drear , Second Life sex sports fan .
The photographic camera works by translating hand and body move into an embodiment ’s motion in Second Life . Tip a bit forth and the avatar will walk , tip faster and the avatar will head for the hills , bakshish too fast and you ’ll fall down ( presumably ) . The included demonstration also shows the camera read various movements into jump , aviate and land “ graciously . ”
Low - priced three-D cameras , such as the Zcam , will not only make play Second Life more immersive thanother peripherals out there , it ’ll also completely rethink human - computer interactions , Kapor said .
https://gizmodo.com/spacenavigator-3d-mouse-gives-full-range-of-motion-to-s-374280
Well , we ’ll see about that . All I know is , if years from now I ’m suddenly abide in a Los Angeles parking band half naked and swinging forth at thing with my katana thanks to a particularly screwball bar fight in a practical realness domain – I ’ll know who to blame . [ New York Times ]
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