Milestone #3 was this morning with much progress to report. Bellow is a video showing the Balance Board and the Kinect working with Minecraft.
Here, the Balance Board moves the character forward, back, left, and right. The left hand enables the user to look around (this is temporary until the Rift is available), and the right hand is used for the mining action. We are fairly far along in the coding stage with much help from our peer, Dustin O’Connor.
The next step will be to increase the sensitivity on the Balance Board, and smooth the mining action. Then we wish to implement a “jump” action… however, do to the integrity of the Balance Board, we do not want the user to actually jump, so some other gesture must be determined while still feeling natural. A new, better demo video will be made in the upcoming weeks.
There are many more plans for this project but those will come later down the road… one step at a time.
Anyhoo, enjoy!