solomonB

I need a high FPS IR camera for a multimedia performance I am working on. We need to track fast short gestures which will be lost at 29.9fps. I am considering using one of the Natural Point Optitrack cameras, but I am worried about the time commitment needed to make them usable. I am willing to do what it takes to complete the project but I would rather spend my time on the artistic rather than the logistical side of things.

The OptiTrack series come with an API and sample applications. The API is available as a COM interface allowing one to write applications in C/C++ or a number of other languages. However this would also make it a pretty significant project to port any OptiTrack applications to OS X.

I know of one person who has used an older model of Natural Point IR camera with a custom windows app which sends OSC messages via UDP, but sadly I do not think this older model of camera is available anymore. I was wondering if anyone has any experience using these cameras with OSC and/or Max? Also does anyone know of any other high FPS IR cameras that may not require quite so much relatively low level coding? Thanks for any info.

high-fps-ir-cameras-natural-point-any-others

http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download)

(cheaper) natural point camera output to udp.

many recent discussions about azoteric cameras are left unanswered in the

list. i hope one day it will be easier to interface api's with the grabbing

On Dec 16, 2007 6:54 AM, Solomon Bothwell wrote:

> I need a high FPS IR camera for a multimedia performance I am working on.

> We need to track fast short gestures which will be lost at 29.9fps. I am

> considering using one of the Natural Point Optitrack cameras, but I am

> worried about the time commitment needed to make them usable. I am willing

> to do what it takes to complete the project but I would rather spend my time

> on the artistic rather than the logistical side of things.

> The OptiTrack series come with an API and sample applications. The API is

> available as a COM interface allowing one to write applications in C/C++ or

> a number of other languages. However this would also make it a pretty

> significant project to port any OptiTrack applications to OS X.

> I know of one person who has used an older model of Natural Point IR

> camera with a custom windows app which sends OSC messages via UDP, but sadly

> I do not think this older model of camera is available anymore. I was

> wondering if anyone has any experience using these cameras with OSC and/or

> Max? Also does anyone know of any other high FPS IR cameras that may not

> require quite so much relatively low level coding? Thanks for any info.

as far as remember glovepie (
http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie_download) will export the older
(cheaper) natural point camera output to udp.
many recent discussions about azoteric cameras are left unanswered in the
list. i hope one day it will be easier to interface api's with the grabbing
mechanism.
its closed now.

On Dec 16, 2007 6:54 AM, Solomon Bothwell  wrote:

>
> Hi maxlist
>
> I need a high FPS IR camera for a multimedia performance I am working on.
> We need to track fast short gestures which will be lost at 29.9fps. I am
> considering using one of the Natural Point Optitrack cameras, but I am
> worried about the time commitment needed to make them usable. I am willing
> to do what it takes to complete the project but I would rather spend my time
> on the artistic rather than the logistical side of things.
>
> The OptiTrack series come with an API and sample applications. The API is
> available as a COM interface allowing one to write applications in C/C++ or
> a number of other languages. However this would also make it a pretty
> significant project to port any OptiTrack applications to OS X.
>
> I know of one person who has used an older model of Natural Point IR
> camera with a custom windows app which sends OSC messages via UDP, but sadly
> I do not think this older model of camera is available anymore. I was
> wondering if anyone has any experience using these cameras with OSC and/or
> Max? Also does anyone know of any other high FPS IR cameras that may not
> require quite so much relatively low level coding? Thanks for any info.
>
>

High FPS IR cameras? Natural Point? Any others?