Lack of interactive mobile VR programme is already well known, and most excellent product Gear VR only turned and touch pad control. And it is learnt that Oculus Carmack in full Gear VR development inside out (from the inside) tracking system, while many other companies in this field.
On August 24, the Silicon Valley start-up uSens Ling science and technology held its first Conference in the country, officially launched its inside out optical tracking modules Fingo, mainly for the ARVR field. In addition to interacting with the Leap as main Motion gestures outside, this product also provides head-tracking function.
Three versions of the Fingo module and an integrated reference design
The Fingo module released a total of three versions: the Fingo and the Power and Color Fingo Fingo.
Fingo has two infrared cameras, resolution 640x480, 5-70 cm working distance, number 60 FPS, depending on the angle of the horizontal 140 degrees vertical 122 degrees. Official said it could make the device have 26 DOF gesture tracking (means finger freedom if all added up to a total of 26) and marker-based location tracking, and minimized consumption of battery and run.
Color Fingo has two RGB camera, resolution 1280x720, 1-3 m working distance, level 115 degree vertical FOV of 90 degrees, number 60 FPS. Fingo has increased on the basis of inside-out 6 degree of freedom tracking and ARVR scene.
Power Fingo has four cameras, two infrared two RGB, has the first two functions on the basis of integrated battery and Gao Tongxiao Dragon processor.
Official show of machine design
In addition to the above three products, the company has also introduced a reference design for mobile VR machine using Gao Tongxiao 820 processor, 1440*1440 dual screen and Fingo module, integrated, with 26 degrees gestures, 6 degrees of freedom head tracking as well as AR overlay function.
Experience Demo
Gesture interaction Demo
Conference uSens on its three main functions-the gesture interaction, head tracking, and AR overlay function, is shown. Demo look good fluency. GUCCI iPhone 6 plus
Small series of on site also experienced the gesture interaction and head tracking these two functions, only to find no Demo demonstrates so well. First hand gesture tracking often appeared lost and delayed significantly, or when manually in the virtual world of delay occurs when the hand moves.
Small series of experiences with Fingo VR helmet
Reasons leading to experience than the Demo, staff explained: first experience the environment is noisy, so causing loss of track; overheat down cause of delay is the mobile phone. Small series of interviews on these issues after the meeting when uSens co-founder and COO-Chi, he says, experience caused by ambient noise is the cause of the problem, and the company has developed a noise-filtering technology, ambient noise can filter 90%, under various environmental conditions to ensure a good experience. But because the technology refresh rate is not good enough, and therefore no experience.
Shi Chi said Fingo module tracking accuracy of 0.1 mm, power 1.1W, Leap only half of the Motion, and will be further reduced in the future.
It is to be noted that, on-site experience products are phone boxes, mobile phone is Samsung S6 or S7. One machine only displayed helmets only appears in the Demo of the PC platform.
Shi Chi the venue prepared for the equipment apologized in private, he said experience than originally expected, if you are more mobile, less continuous experience fever block situation, field experience will be better. In addition, he also expressed the ambient noise and heat problems currently 0 in similar products is a common phenomenon in perspective.
Time to market and developer program
B2B2C is uSens the launch of several products, the company itself is not a consumer-oriented product, but with the manufacturers to apply their technology to the helmet above. Shi Chi said providing modules to the customer the price can be as low as $ 30, and will be further reduced in the future, modules is open book.
On cooperation, helmet manufacturers, vendors, as well as one of the most important of authorized vendors, uSens has not been released, however, said Shi Chi-related products probably saw in October. GUCCI iPhone 6+
Developer, uSens the officially announced Open Beta SDK and uDev developer program launched, offering a full-service developer kits. At present, the software system based on mobile and PC end Unity of 3D,Java,C++ development, follow-up will support more development platforms.
In addition to the VR, the company is also involved in the AR field, Shi Chi said there are some AR seeking cooperation hardware manufacturers in the country, but did not specifically announce news. He also said his own SLAM algorithm can be ranked into the top five in the world in the field.
PostScript
USens was established in 2013, the main development Inside out tracking technology solutions should be used in ARVR. In June, the company announced this year fosun brothers lead investor $ 20 million series a financing.
In the field of mobile VR interactive technology, uSens provides a more complete solution, but the major manufacturers of mobile VR, including Gear Google Daydream and VR, are developing their own means of interaction, uSens solution can be applied to how broad remains to be seen.
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