daraosn/oculus-drone

Oculus Rift + AR Drone 2.0 controller with live video feed and head-motion controller.

Oculus-Drone

Web interface to control the AR Drone 2.0 with an Oculus Rift. This is based on another of my projects: ardrone-swarm.

Watch a demo here:

How to use?

1. npm install
2. bower install
3. coffee -c -o . .
4. Download and run oculus-rest server (https://github.com/possan/oculus-rest)
5. node .
6. Go to your browser http://localhost:3000/
7. Click on the drone that appears on screen, in order to activate it.
8. When ready press 'o' key, to activate Oculus Rift viewer.
9. Activate full screen on your browser
10. To take off the drone, press 'ENTER'
11. Move your head to control the drone
12. To land the drone, press 'ESC'

License: MIT

Copyright (C) 2014 Diego Araos [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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oculus-drone's Issues

Require 'dronestream' missing

index.coffee:
Add a line for
dronestream = require "dronestream"

Images do not render

The video feed seems to be updating in Chrome. I get continuously updating image elements at:

xpath: //*[@id="drones"]/div/div[2]/img

html:

However, the video images render as the broken-image icon in Chrome (v34)

No output on oculus

Hello Guys

I have tried the code and can control the drone. But I can't see the output on the oculus. When I try example codes then oculus works as normal. I have used

Oculus DK2
Tried Oculus runtime 0.4,0.7 and 0.8
Used Oculus Rest exe file(https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2o04au/oculusrest_for_windows_dk2_043_sdk/)

Can you guys help me out

Awaiting for your reply

bootstrap: wrong path

Browser console log reports:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://localhost:3000/components/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) http://localhost:3000/components/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js

Missing components are installed in
/bower_components/bootstrap.css/css/bootstrap.min.css
/bower_components/bootstrap.css/js/bootstrap.min.js

third person view

just to echo this old "feature" request from twitter: make the drone follow the operator around.

bower: deprecated component.json, wrong path, and possibly out of date components

'bower install' reports:

bower deprecated You are using the deprecated component.json file

components are installed by default to 'bower_components' instead of '\components'

'bower list' reports:
drone-swarm#0.1.0 C:\projects\github\oculus-drone
├── bootstrap.css#2.1.1 (latest is 2.3.2)
└── jquery#1.7.2 (latest is 2.1.1-rc2)

Experence so-far and lessons learnt

Hi,

It's my birthday today so as I gift to myself and made sometime in my schedule to try this fantastic project out.

Environment
Windows 8.1 / Dell Precision m9600 / Oculus v1 SDK / AD Drone 2 v 2.4.7 firmware.

1. Install - Easy Enough if you know a little about node.js.
2. Use Chrome or Firefox / IE won't work (I'm guessing this is down to no support for getuserMedia is the issue here).

Start Procedure:

1. Power Up and Connect PC to AD Drone Wireless.
2. Start Oculus-Rest
3. Start Oculus-Drone
4. Press F11 (Full Screen), O enable Oculus View.

At this point things get interesting.

1. (Rarely) Sometimes I can find there's no data being read from the Oculus (no green dot), and no output in the oculus-rest output window.
2. More Often - See the Drone video feed through Oculus and movement being detected, Drone refuses to accept start command, checking the output window of Oculus-Drone looks like some sort of race condition with output x,y,x all returning 0 and ploughing up the screen, other times sensible looking data appearing but still no start by pressing enter.

I've only actually got it to take off a couple of times in an hour so far. I'm wondering if my start-up procedure was different. Tried removing my flight recorder and doing a reset on the drone made no different that I could tell.

Anyway I hope this helps other get going and I'm going to study the code later today to see if I can contribute (JavaScript being my second or third language) and check if I'm running the latest firmware on the drone :-)