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<\/a>Items for home-brew Augmented Reality<\/p><\/div>\n
You need an:<\/p>\n
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- iPhone 6<\/li>\n
- Google Cardboard v2<\/li>\n
- Occipital Structure Sensor<\/li>\n
- mounting bracket for Structure Sensor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Now, you might be able to use an iPhone 5 but you will probably have to build your own bracket [more on that in a bit].<\/p>\n
You can either build you own Google CardBoard from a pizza box. \u00a0You can find instructions for that here on:<\/p>\n
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- Instructables<\/a><\/li>\n
- eWeek<\/a><\/li>\n
- CNet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
However, most of those plans are for CardBoard V1, which I do not recommend because of the magnet issue. [Seriously Google, what were you thinking?] \u00a0But if you don’t mind paying about $20, you can buy a simple kit all over the internet. \u00a0Amazon has a ton.<\/a><\/p>\n
The Structure Sensor is from Occipital<\/a>. \u00a0It is the same Kinect like sensor that PrimSense made for Microsoft and Kinect 1.<\/p>\n
Finally the mounting bracket. Occipital provides a CAD kit<\/a>\u00a0if you want to build your own bracket and you have access to a 3D printer. \u00a0They also had a contest in partnership with Shapeways [a 3D Print-on-Demand Company]<\/a>\u00a0for the best user-created bracket. \u00a0 You can purchase some of the winning designs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Although, I really liked the\u00a0Grand Prize Winner\u00a0Max T\u00f6nnemann’s design<\/a>,\u00a0 I decided to go with Brian Smith’s design<\/a>. \u00a0The reason is Brian’s design is just\u00a0slightly shorter. \u00a0 Unlike Max’s design in which the Structure Sensor is mounted on top of the bracket, Brian’s design mounts the camera in the bracket, which makes the overall height lower. \u00a0 This translates to a closer center of gravity on your face.<\/p>\n
VR and AR cameras are already weird enough to wear so you want to decrease the front heaviness as much as possible. \u00a0 Still I do plan on checking out Max’s design at some point in the future.<\/p>\n
Now for the magic.<\/p>\n
You want to cut holes in the Google CardBoard to the match the holes in the bracket for the sensor and the phone’s camera as such:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Holes cut into Google Cardboard.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Now you will need to make the hole for the iPhone camera slightly bigger then the bracket’s hole. \u00a0Otherwise, you are are not going to get the full frame for view for the iPhone camera.<\/p>\n
Once you do that, put the sensor\u00a0into the bracket.<\/p>\n
- eWeek<\/a><\/li>\n
- Instructables<\/a><\/li>\n