Head tracking via camera + QR Code - is this possible?

Hi all,

Just a quick question regarding head tracking with Gear VR.

Having done some quick reading, I see that the general idea with head tracking relies on external equipment tracking movement or another idea has been to use a phone's internal sensors to detect movement.

Does anyone know if the idea of using the phones camera with some printed QR codes would be possible? The idea being to print out QR codes that can be placed around a user. A quick calibration wizard could be used by the user to ascertain their position relative to the printed codes and then use them as spatial points - similar to when using an AR app.

The phones sensors could still be used, this would just be an additional way to track movement.

Was just curious if it had been tried or was indeed possible?

Cheers,


Wayne

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