Use the motion sensor on your laptop to play games

i found this sick program that lets you have wii like motion sensing on your laptop to play with any game. all you need is a decent webcam, a bright room, and a bright object and you can play all sorts of games on your laptop with motion sensor controls. its free and easy so check it out

http://www.camspace.com/

 

EPIC.

+1

Will try this out

 

thank god you responded and love it like i did man! i was beginning to think i was crazy for thinking this was big lol

 

it's okay, but it constantly lost track of the object i tried using and would track the wall behind me.

 

HOLY CRAP ! ! !
Im definitely trying this out!!!

I love it how they show it running on a mac in the videos but it says "I'm Mac!... notify me"
HMMM someones not letting us Mac users have fun =/


"Make sure there's plenty of light in the room you're in.
Pick a bright, colorful object with a uniform color that is NOT the color of your shirt or the wall behind you."

PS: to anybody with tracking problems... WORK WITH IT, FIX IT... dont sit there and complain, obviously in the videos they had it figured out!!!

USE A GOOD WEBCAM TOO, not some crappy 1MP generic crap 1FPS 320*160

 

yea make sure ur room is mad bright and u have high contrast item as the tracking item also a good webcam helps. its pretty fun i like the bowling try that one!

 

Hmm. Wouldn't install on my x64 home premium... The installation wizard extracted all the files but froze when executing the program. I figured it's because the default installation point is the program files folder, but trying to change it also froze it.

Hope it works out for everyone else

 

Did it with my Aspire One's webcam. Had to turn on the lamps behind me to get 30FPS and make it work, but it worked amazingly well and smooth, actually MUCH faster, accurate and sensitive than the wii's controller.

Strangely though, one of the games caused about 900 pop ups to flood my screen til my aspire one locked up. I don't think it was the program it's self though, rather the web page it opened when I clicked on one of the games, but that was an insane amount of ads.

I initially tried it out with a blue mini Maglite. After registering it as an object, it put an axis on it, and registered when I twisted it, moved it around, rotated it etc. This program is truly epic!

 

Has anyone tried using this as a 6DOF tracker?

It would be awesome for racing and flight sims.

 

This looks awesome! Trying it -and- blogging about it

 

Ok this thing is way too cool. Just tried their bowling game and it worked so well! Trying Crysis now.

 

ok good so i see now i wasnt crazy to think this was gonna be the next big hit. btw it installed fine on my 64bit vista

also remember that the program is currently in a beta state so many updates and improvements will be coming.

 

How do you click? I skipped the tutorial and cant get it back

*facepalm

 

sometimes wiggling my object quickly up and down "clicks" but usually i just mouse to, im no expert at this thing yet

 

Im downloading it if i can get it running ill let you all know what i think +rep for you my friend.

Edit: WOW doesnt that suck i put on the light and im still only getting 10fps and 7fps i guess i may have to wait till tomorrow or something.

 

try messing around with your webcam settings in the options for better performance, also try turning on a extra lamp or opening blinds. thanks for the rep i just thought id share this hidden gem with the notebookreview crew

 

Wow, excellent. Works just fine with the games it lists. Now I'm going to see if I can get it to work with some FPS.

+Rep

 

I think my COMODO firewall was preventing it from installing. Works fine now. Thanks for the thread!

 

lol tried it with C&C games.... not that great compared to the mouse.

its good for flash games though.... even some mame games like Arkanoid.

 

I see you've added this to your blog


OP: When I actually use default settingsI get 34FPS vs 27 with tweaked settings =/

USE OBJECTS THAT ARE BRIGHT AND THE COLORS POP!!!

 

hmm i duno why it went down to 27, try tweaking them in other ways?
check this out some guy playing a fps with it like a gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PIDRVh4B-0

 

I gotta say it`s a pretty interesting concept and fun,but response time is horrible...
Maybe in time...

 

Heck yes I did . I've also got an interview with the founder & CEO lined up.

(Oh and remember to try to use objects that don't match anything you're wearing. I was wearing a bright pink shirt the first time I tried it and picked a pink highlighter to use and that really messed it up for me until I changed my top!)

 

Nice ideea and it's still beta...

 

Cool, but I will stick with my Wiimote there is a lot more than just one motion tracker in there. Accelerometers and gyro based sensors too, and all of them can be used in games or applications.

Then add in the nunchuck or classic controller for even more stuff.

 

Why not just go topless?

 

It was cold

 

agreed this program was really good but there are still some bugs i think that need to be worked out

 

While watching the Youtube videos at the bottom, showing how it worked, I "tried" it out, without installing it, just to see how it would feel.

Arm got tired in about 9 seconds. Think I'll stick to the keyboard/mouse.

Laziness FTW!

 

Lol thurrr great!

.....sorry anyway exercise is the way my friend how exhausted do you get when you play wii?

 

Who's says I play the Wii? Lol. I'm a thumbstick/button man myself when I play the 360.

 

Some Wii games can wear you out. I was playing Dragon Quest Swords today and thats one of them, you have to slash your wiimote like a sword to fight.

Even using the wii wheel in mario kart can get your arms tired after so long because you get all into the game, and when you go to make a really hard turn you find yourself turning with your whole body in an effort to lean your kart over more

 

Man I remember (Still do it sometimes), even on Playstation 2 controllers I would always lean with the direction I was putting my analog stick on sharp corners of racing games when I wanted to avoid the wall. Haha. Think we've all done that eh guys?

 

yea so i guess the consensus is that the program is good? or mixed reviews?

 

SWEET! I'm trying that out this weekend! I played Medal of Honor on Wii a couple weekends ago and I was hooked. It was just like the arcades.

It made going back to a mouse and keyboard a seriously downer.

 

Tank, the Wii is cool though!

LOL, heck yeah vicious i remember playing online for hours i had to put down the wheel and go relax haha.

 

I really enjoyed the wheel when I first got the game, but then I started getting competitive and moved to the nunchuck. My game improved quite a bit, though if you stick with the wheel long enough you can get pretty good with it. They should give wheel users a slight boost in speed or something to even the grounds up some.

 

The interview with CamSpace founder & CEO is up on Gaming Vixen if anyone's interested (Ughh, I hope this isn't against the rules, seeing as I'm keeping on topic and not linking to the post or anything >.<).

I'm totally CamSpacing it up right now :S:S:S. Until later today, anyway (time to replay the Diablo games in preparation for III).