I have gotten the head tracking working great, but for the life of me I can not get the 3D working. Is there something I am doing wrong? Is the 3D effect only visible through a video camera? I have built my own IR glasses as well as tried it with the actual Wii censor bar. I’m using XP with a Compusa Bluetooth dongle. I’ve try the both Bluesoleil drivers as well as the Toshiba BT stack. I’m able to use all of the futures of the Wiimote at least I think I can. I used widApp and was able to turn on and off the LED’s make it rumble ect… Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By the way Johnny Thanks a ton. This was a great project.

If I get a few extra minutes tonight I’ll post a picture of my Frankenstein glasses and IR LED pen.

Bill

I also thought It was going to look 3d like in the video   But later figured out that it's  not going to look as good as when you see it through a camera.

Johnny posted this about how you could make it look better and it kind of explains why it looks better with the camera:

"Shutter/polarized glasses - if you are going to put something on your head covering your eyes for 3D, it is worth considering making shutter/polarized glasses which allows the computer to deliver a different image to each eye. This results in stereoscopic displays. Combined with head tracking, you get a DARPA grade 3D simulator. When just doing head tracking, the conflicting stereo depth cues weakens the illusion. I would love to do this, but it's quite a bit more hardware, and requires synchronization with the display refresh (or light polarization) which often isn't easy especially given the wide variety of display technologies out there."

So basically I think what he is saying is with just a camera it makes it look great because there is only one lens, and we have 2 eyes So to make it look good for our eyes you would have to have 2 images slightly offset from each other, and then use a shutter system for the glasses or maybe a Red lens/Green lens like the cheapo 3d movies.

This is just my understanding of it

-Mike

Maybe he's getting the same error I got. I can't feel that Z axis is changing (targets growing and getting smaller). The targets do move as I move but little or no scale is done at all. That would cause the 3d effect.

Jake,

Thank you for your reply.

Am I understanding you correctly…If I shut one eye then I should see the depth and the targets popping out of the screen like in Johnny video? Or are you saying that this can only be accomplished with the use of a camera.

I’m not home to try this.