/Pottery

An Oculus VR/Leap Motion Application, where you can sculpt a pot model.

Primary LanguageC#Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Pottery

A replica of the "Hand Grasp and Motion for Intent Expression in Mid-Air Virtual Pottery" paper from the Graphics Interface Conference 2015, Canada. See a commented video description for a quick overview.

Installation instructions

  1. Download and install Unity 5.2.2f1
  2. Download and install the Leap Motion SDK.
  3. Open the project folder with Unity

Used Hard- and Software

The Leap Motion controller is a small USB peripheral device which is designed to be placed on a physical desktop, facing upward. Using two monochromatic IR cameras and three infrared LEDs, the device observes a roughly hemispherical area, to a distance of about 1 meter. The LEDs generate pattern-less IR light and the cameras generate almost 300 frames per second of reflected data, which is then sent through a USB cable to the host computer, where it is analyzed by the Leap Motion controller software using "complex maths" in a way that has not been disclosed by the company, in some way synthesizing 3D position data by comparing the 2D frames generated by the two cameras.

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