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Playing Beat Saber in the browser with body movements using PoseNet & Tensorflow.js

Charlie Gerard on October 24, 2019

I haven't played many VR games because I don't own gears but one that I tried and loved was Beat Saber. If you're not familiar with it, it is th...
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Nicola •

That's impressive! Really a cool experiment, it remember me a kinect-like controller. I want to try this experiment with a simple website, to handle navigation and other behaviors with any hardware controller, I think this might be the future of website interaction!

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Tom VanAntwerp •

And here I am, having just spend $400 on an Oculus Quest like some kind of chump. This is so cool--thanks for sharing!

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Aadi Bajpai •

I'd be happy to take it off your hands haha!

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Sandeep Balachandran •

You had me at GIF

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Nick Taylor • • Edited

When is the TensorFlow team going to hire you? 😺 Awesome stuff as always Charlie!

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Christopher Kade •

You always come up with the most amazing and creative ideas ! Please tell me there's a talk planned to present this project 😄

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Konstantin Meiklyar •

This is just mindblowing! Really cool

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Michael •

Just a heads up. Another supported VR device is the Oculus Quest. It's a REALLY affordable VR headset that has no wires and Beat Saber is on it too. :)

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Radu Anastase •

Congrats! Very interesting!

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eerk •

Wow that's super cool, I might show your repository in my javascript dev lessons!

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Omri Grossman •

Super interesting, Thank you!

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David Yu •

Nice! Also made something similar with Fruit Ninja: youtube.com/watch?v=PM-LN_uTxMc

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Steven Mercatante •

This is incredible!

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Autumn •

Wow I really liked this! Submitted to HN :)
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21346106

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Zizaco •

This is awesome

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Carl Barrdahl •

This is awesome, well done!