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Episode 459: Raspberry Pi 4 VR Conference Call Assistant

 

It’s difficult to take part in conference calls. The 2d nature of the call doesn’t allow social interaction. What if you could look at people in your conference call using a virtual reality headset? A picture of you would move left and right as your head moves left and right. Other attendees can look around and chat to the person they want to talk to. Lorraine shows how to setup a first person view raspberry pi that connects to a virtual reality headset or a simple browser window. This project has lots of potential outside of conference calls such as security cameras, nature cameras and first person view robots. 

Bill of Material:

Product Name Manufacturer Quantity Buy Kit
RASPBERRY-PI Daughter Board, Raspberry Pi Camera Board, Version 2, Sony IMX219 8-Megapixel Sensor Raspberry Pi 2 Buy Now
PIMORONI PAN-TILT HAT FULL KIT PIMORONI 2 Buy Now
RASPBERRY PI 3 Raspberry Pi 2 Buy Now
Raspberry Pi Power Supply Raspberry Pi 2 Buy Now
SD Card TRANSCEND 2 Buy Now

 

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A VR HEADSET, PREFERABLY A SIMPLE CARDBOARD ONE
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Raspberry Pi 4 VR Conference Call Assistant

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  • I like the idea and had thought about a telepresence robot for when I'm working remotely and the rest of my team are back in the office.

     

    Have you see Ross Atkin's Smartipresence robot using cardboard plus a smart phone?

     

    Radoslaw Kieltyka wrote a blog on streaming video from a pi. That should still work with the latest models/os

     

    Stream live videos from your Pi

     

    Streaming video protocols don't send full frames so would be using less bandwidth than the image snapshots.

     

    You mentioned lag on the control side. Perhaps one way to reduce that is to swap to a lightweight protocol. MQTT could send your attitude values with less bytes than a HTTPS request. I did that for my music player and racecar projects using a MQTT broker hosted on a device inside my network. I used node for those two projects but you could do the same in python.

     

    BeagleBone Blue - Music Player

    [Upcycle It] Interactive Race Car Driver - Software

  • in reply to Workshopshed

    Andy, while seeing the video I was thinking to some online rendering engine. I think that a mix of local and remote stuff can dramatically improve the confereincing system, but to do this, it is necessary to start with a platform that can be managed and manipulated by software.

     

    Enrico

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  • in reply to Workshopshed

    Andy, while seeing the video I was thinking to some online rendering engine. I think that a mix of local and remote stuff can dramatically improve the confereincing system, but to do this, it is necessary to start with a platform that can be managed and manipulated by software.

     

    Enrico

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