Real-time head-tracking control of animatronic skull

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October 16th, 2009 6

Cool video from the folks at MonkeyBasic.com who are selling an add-on to Brookshire’s Visual Show Automation (VSA) package. The software is tracking the head movements of an operator wearing a special IR-active headpiece, and translating them into real-time motions of an animatronic skull.

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