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Interactive Media Systems, TU Wien

MoveOnPC - Supporting the PlayStation Move controller on the PC

Lab project in the area of Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Keywords: Playstation Move Controller, 3D Input, OpenCV, Sensor Fusion.

About this Project

In October/September 2010 Sony released the PlayStation Move – a motion-sensing game controller for the PlayStation 3. The Move controller is an excellent input device which can be used for very accurate input but all software development for PC support has to be done from scratch.

Funding provided by

Google Summer of Code 2012

Additional Information

Within this project we develop the cross-platform psmove API to acquire 3D positions of multiple PS Move Motion Controllers in real-time. Sensor fusion is performed to improve tracking accuracy. The camera to be used is a PS Eye camera, however our library can flexibly be used in combination with any other camera after calibration (FoV, etc..). Two spheres can be detected simultaneously and correctly mapped to 3D coordinates.

Project Website

For more information, please visit the project website:

Publications

2013

PS Move API: A Cross-Platform 6DoF Tracking Framework With the introduction of 6DoF motion controllers for game consoles, low cost hardware for 3D interaction became widely available. However, no… T. Perl, B. Venditti, H. Kaufmann Details
Cross-Platform Tracking of a 6DoF Motion Controller There is a lack of software for 6DoF (six degrees of freedom) tracking using affordable off-theshelf hardware. With the introduction of motion… T. Perl Details

Topics & Tasks

Completed

0252 Sony PS Move Controller Support for PCs This topic is based on the open source project MoveOnPC https://code.google.com/p/moveonpc/ The goal of this project is the platform independent… H. Kaufmann Details