Polhemus Patriot Tracking System: Support/Problem

[FrankPSchulte]

Hello Vizards,

We are just in the process of evaluating World Viz's Vizard for use as a replacement for our very, VERY old and outdated Superscape VRT to conduct psychological experiments in immersive and desktop VR. So far, World Viz looks just like the stuff we are looking for.

However, we are stuck with the support for the Polhemus Patriot Tracking System which we are determined to buy for our new setup. The Patriot (plugged into a usb port) is working well, as we can see from Polhemus' test software. But Vizard just doesn't load the driver (patriot.dls): "** ERROR: Failed to load plug-in: 'patriot.dls'." We both followed the head tracking tutorial as well as changed the head tracking demo files (automatic.py and manual.py) - neither worked. We used the evaluation copy of vizard 2.53 as well as the 3.0 beta 1. We used two different machines (Notebook with T2500, 2 GIG RAM, 256 MB X1600, XP Pro; Desktop 3,x P4, 1 GIG RAM, X700, XP Media Center Ed.). We installed 2.53. installed 3.0, deinstalled 2.53, ... nothing works.

Maybe someone has a working Patriot-Vizard-Installation running, and can give us a hint? I see the guy in this punching demo on Worlds Viz's Homepage uses a Patriot, and the German reseller support has also seen Vizard running with Patriot, so I guess there should be a solution nearby .

Thanks in advance, and greetings from Germany,

Frank

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Dipl.-Päd. Frank P. Schulte

Abteilung für Kognitionspsychologie
Institut für Kognition und Kommunikation
Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg

Department for Cognitive Psychology
Institute of Cognition and Communication
Faculty of Social Sciences
University Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg, Germany

frank.schulte@uni-duisburg-essen.de