From: Robert W. Lindeman [gogo@SEAS.GWU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:58 AM
To: Anders Backman
Cc: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Basic HMD question

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Anders Backman wrote:

Hi Anders,

> The problem arise when the tracker is mounted a bit from the eyes, on top,
> on the side or on the back of the head.

One solution is to insert the proper "offset" value (a translation) of the
distance from the eyes to the tracker onto your transformation stack. This
will "move" all of the tracker position/orientation readings into
eye-space. This works for me.

HTH!

-Rob
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