Product details

Near Field Personal Space Tracker™ (PST™)

Complete optical motion tracking in each single unit.

Calibration free

Internal processing (no external processing needed)

Highly Accurate (< 1mm, < 1 deg.)

Plug & Play

Complete tracking in a single unit

Active and Passive Markers

Single marker tracking (3DOF)

Device tracking (6DOF)

Multi object tracking

Robust

The PST is a complete tracking system and consists of the tracking unit, a starter set of markers, a pre trained 3D interaction device, the software, and a manual.

Advantages

The PST is a fully integrated system, i.e. all processing (image processing/tracking/training/etc) happens inside the PST. This frees up your own system so you can concentrate on important things such as graphics and interaction, while minimizing latency.

The PST comes with powerful and intuitive software at no additional costs.

The PST comes fully calibrated, you just mount it somewhere in your setup and you are good to go. As such, the PST is very easy to maintain, move, or setup in another environment.

The PST has great flexibility in the type of rigid bodies it can track. You can used spherical markers as well as flat markers which can be put on any type of object. For instance, a toy car of coffee cup could be equipped with 30 or 40 flat markers. This enables you to manipulate such objects as you would normally, unhampered by sticks with spherical markers. Also you can use both active and passive markers

The PST features a very intuitive and quick training procedure to teach the system to recognize new rigid bodies and can handle more complex bodies.

Fast accurate tracking

The PST uses tangible, wireless interaction devices for 3D interaction. These devices are tracked using a sophisticated optical tracking system. The position and orientation (pose) of the devices are reconstructed 55 times per second, and with sub-millimeter accuracy.

Mark train and interact ... with almost anything

Transform arbitrary objects like cubes, pens, helmets, bodyparts, glasses and tennis rackets into tracked objects. Both active and passive markers can be used. One marker gives you 3 degrees of freedom, while 4+ markers gives you 6 Degrees of freedom. Furthermore you can track at least 15 different devices using the Personal space tracker. Training a new device is done in seconds.

Normal lighting conditions

The optical tracking is based on infrared lighting, reducing interference of visible light s

ources from the environment. This allows the PST to be used under normal office working conditions, without requiring controlled lighting.

Tracking software

The PST comes with an easy to use tracker application. This application is used for new device training, managing devices, referencing and linking applications.

The Tracker unit itself is taking care of the actual tracking calculations. Using the PST therefore has minimal impact on the computing power of the system on which you run your applications.

You can import the tracking data using the standard interface VRPN or using our SDK that allows you to import the tracking data direct in your application.