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Supperware Head Tracker

Head Tracker 1: a USB device that quickly and precisely captures your head orientation up to 100 times per second. It’s comfortable, affordable, and leaves your eyes in the real world.

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Software

Needs Bridgehead software running in the background. Download here:

supperware.co.uk/headtracker

Important Specs

  • Output: Rotation Only, 3 DOF, Tait-Bryan (yaw/pitch/roll), quaternions, orthogonal matrix, raw sensor output
  • Latency: Nominally 10ms
  • Accuracy: Bettern then 1 degree, output in 0.028-degree intervals
  • Interface: Class-compliant MIDI over USB, or MIDI data over 115200 baud UART (Micro-B Connector)
  • Sensor-Tech: MEMS internal sensors: 3 accelerometers, 2 gyroscopes, 1 electronic compass.

Profiles

Profiles.txt is a small text file that is placed in Bridgehead's settings folder. You can find this most easily by clicking on the 'Show file' button in the OSC Bridge Settings window. If you've got this far, you probably know this already. Infos:

supperware.net/headtracker/profile-txt/

Open Profiles.txt

/[user]/Library/Bridgehead/Profiles.txt

Profile to connect with cables.gl via OSC

cables.gl default OSC server needs to be addressed via 192.168.178.20 Port 9000. So a bridgehead profile to send headtracking data to the webbrowser running a cables.gl patch would look something like this:

cables.gl TransformView
/[yaw,pitch,roll]
yaw,-pitch,roll
192.168.178.20 9000

Customize the sent data as needed, and if the OSC server address changed, update it as well.