Insight VR

For the second year in a row I’ll be attending PyCon. I’m rather looking forward to it. My brother Matt is officially speaking on Saturday. They’ve put him in a time slot going up against a panel with Guido on it, but I assume that people are sick of hearing Guido by now and those in the know are aware of how excellent Matt’s talks and slides are.

This year I won’t be presenting anything officially, but we plan on bringing the wiiMote stuff and the lasers. I am going to try to schedule an some open-space time (maybe in the evening?) and basically run what would have been my tutorial. I have most of the content done slide wise and just need to look at the code and clean it up a bit. I’ll try to sign up for a lightning talk on Friday in order to advertise it. The lighting talk will be short an sweet, assuming it happens at all.

In any case, if you bring a bluetooth enabled laptop with Linux or Mac OS X we will do our best to get some headtracking running on it and help you on your way to your own strange human-computer interaction experiments. We’ll bring our own wiiMotes and lots of IR LEDs and batteries, but if people want to bring their own wiiMotes that would be nice.

Together with my brother I submitted a proposal to PyCon to run a tutorial on wiiMote headtracking under Python. Given that they are running two days of tutorials this year I thought we had a pretty good shot. I guess we were wrong. After seeing on a mailing list that acceptance letters had been sent out over a week prior I wrote and asked for a formal rejection if such a thing was coming. A day later I got it.
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