This small update only includes a small test for users of Tilt Five™ glasses to see how icosi-do might be controlled with hand gestures (as suggested in my previous post). If you have access to Tilt Five™ glasses, please try it out with the full game or the demo.
Some instructions (only for Tilt Five™ users):
- In the Tilt Five™ Control Panel under "Settings", activate "Allow Camera Frame Sender". (Without camera frames, hand gesture control is not possible. The infrared camera frames are sent from the Tilt Five™ glasses to the connected PC and analysed there to control the game.)
- In icosi-do, the test of hand gesture control is activated under SETTINGS > AR GLASSES > OK SIGN > TEST. Through the Tilt Five™ glasses, you should then see a red, low-resolution camera image below the puzzle.
- The only supported hand gesture is an OK/ring sign formed by thumb and one finger. This gesture represents a left mouse click or trigger pull. When recognised, the inside of the ring becomes green in the camera image. To be recognised, the ring has to be closed and the inside of the ring has to be of a certain size but may not be too large. (You may want to adjust the apparent size of your hand by moving it closer to or farther away from the glasses.) Also, a large portion of the rest of the gameboard has to be visible, thus, please make sure that there are no other objects in the camera view.
- If you move your hand while forming the OK/ring sign, the puzzle is rotated based on the movements of your hand in the camera image. (You may change the direction of rotations under SETTINGS > CONTROLS > INVERT and the sensitivity under SETTINGS > CONTROLS > SPEED.)
- You may activate a white 3D reticle to select rods by head movements to solve the puzzles without wand. To do this, turn off(!) the Tilt Five™ wand and(!) select SETTINGS > AR GLASSES > CLONE VIEW > ON. While the white 3D reticle is on top of a rod, you may then select it by forming the OK/ring sign.
- Note that the game menu cannot be controlled with hand gestures yet; however, if you are at "CONTINUE" in the main menu, showing a OK/ring sign can bring you back to the puzzle.
All that might sound a bit complicated because it is! In fact, the small field of view of the camera can be quite frustrating. Moreover, I'm not sure about some of the parameters used in the detection of the OK/ring sign, specifically the minimum and maximum allowed size of the inside of the ring. Thus, I would really appreciate feedback on this test from as many users of Tilt Five™ glasses as possible. Please leave a comment below this announcement, or in the discussion forum, or on the Tilt Five™ discord. Thank you!
PS: Apparently, one can crash the app by activating gesture control with SETTINGS > AR GLASSES > OK SIGN > TEST and then performing a gesture right away. So, please, exit the menu before you start gesturing!