3D positioning sensor & stereo rendering

This is called fishtank VR (where VR is virtual reality) -- using the
standard term may help you find existing literature.


Yes, they are called "head trackers" and are commercially available.  
(Depending on what sort of diploma you're going for, you should be aware
that a fishtank VR system is nothing new.)

Best,
- Joe

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Head and eyeball tracking has been around for quite a while. I went to
an imaging trade show in Boston around 1990 where they had a demo set
up. As I remember, it had a camera looking forward from the top of the
head and another head mounted camera looking at one of the operators
eyeballs. In their demo, they had a TV monitor in the booth and a video
camera looking out at the walkway in the show. The operator sat in a
chair in front of the monitor and the monitor displayed the video image
from the camera with a cross hair overlaying where the tracker thought
the operator was looking. It worked pretty well, or well enough to
embarrass several women as they looked at the monitor on the way by and
saw a crosshair on their image, in the locations that you might expect.

Bob

At the UPenn GRASP lab, they have a head tracker where you just put on a
pair of glasses that have a 1" white dot glued on the side. Some kind of
camera (I think infrared) tracks the dot and calculates its orientation.
Makes for a cheap headset, thats for sure.

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look for magnetic 3D positioning,
there are systems that can detect all 6 degrees of freedom

Stef Mientki