Most of the other novel computer interaction peripherals (like Leap Motion) are in the $100s price range. The $10 price point could really make this popular, especially with the hacker and maker community.
Impressive, but if I think back to some old examples of this kind of stuff, like Johnny Chan (also of CMU)'s headtracking/motion tracking with Wii-motes it had remarkably less data (IR Led points) but seemed to handle the type of usecases presented in the video just fine. Admittedly it uses camera technology rather than just photodiodes, so lumitrack seems to have an edge for things that need high speed/fidelity at very low cost, but I don't know what those applications are.
Head tracking would definitely be one. Although rough position tracking with accelerometer rotation tracking might work just as well. Still these are much lower cost than all the hardware that went into the wiimote head tracker.
you'd think that this setup would be much lower cost, but from a quick lookup, these linear sensors (TSL202R) cost more than $8 each in 1k quantity, while you can get a wii controller for about $20. On the other hand, this setup allows for 1000 fps while the wii controller's camera works at 100 fps.
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