Mittwoch, 30. August 2017

First prototype

Robot head with VR headset
The first prototype is ready.

The feeling of "jumping into another body" is ... strange. Sure one can talk about it and discuss how it would be.

But when you put on the VR headset the first time and then see what the robot head sees in full 3D and then rotate your head and the robot head follows your movements - that is a strange feeling.

The same is for people standing around the robot and watching him moving. When you stand in front of him or move in front of him and he follows your movements then you also get a strange feeling in the neck.

Not because a machine with object tracking does some arithmetics to follow you. But because you know that there is a person somewhere in the world who currently steers the robot. So in your subconscious you think that you have a real person in front of you.

If you also want to create such a robot for yourself, you can find build instructions and software for free in my GitHub repository:

https://github.com/hilderonny/rcr

A video showing the setup and movements will follow soon.

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