Integration of the ARToolKitPlus optical tracker into the Personal Space Station

Interaction in Virtual Reality is accomplished through ”tracking devices”. These devices follow the position and orientation of real life objects, such as the user’s head and hands but also of other objects in order to provide a way to interact with virtual objects through objects in the real world. In this thesis we evaluate an optical tracking system for the Personal Space Station (PSS), a desktop Virtual Reality system. An overview is presented of the problems encountered in optical tracking together with a survey of existing methods. We evaluate an open source optical tracking framework, called ARToolKitPlus. We present measurements that show the performance of ARToolKitPlus and asses its usability in Virtual Reality applications by integrating it into the Personal Space Station.