Controlling SecondLife with a 3D camera

Second Life investor Mitch Kapor has a new project in his lab: creating hands-free, 3D navigation for Second Life using a 3D camera that tracks your body geometry, allowing you to fly around in-world in much the same way you'd ride a Segway, by leaning back and forth. Link (Thanks, Mitch!)

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Fran Six

Could work well in a flying wing suit configuration

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donrene

“Nobody makes the first jump”

…the matrix… awesome.
ThinkPositive

There aren’t enough hours in the day to think of having a “second life” online! It suggests that people are unhappy with the realities of their life and would rather escape to a fantasy than try to improve things. That is scary.
Percy

or you could practice lucid dreaming in first life.
Fran Six

You would need: A wind tunnel for parachutists, with walls made of flat panels, a camera, the computer and a flying squirrel suit.

Sort of like run of river swimming pools.
Agent 86

Good call, Percy!

Though, I fear some folks haven’t gotten regular dreaming down yet, so we must give them time.

When do they get tactile sensation as a feature in second life? Cause, then I’m all in!