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Ideally, a later version of the Constellation cameras would do the basic thresholding and blob centroid finding on-board (a relatively simple operation) so all they need to pass back to the cost PC is a strong of coordinates, rather than full frames. This is how ethernet-connected mocap tracking cameras operate. It's possible that the tracking PC and rendering PC could be separated such that one very basic PC is connected to the cameras and handles the image processing, and hands off a string of coords over WiFi (or bluetooth, or dedicated RF) to the mobile host PC to perform sensor fusion and all other operations, but this is overcomplicated for a consumer system.Wireless video to the HMD is a far more elegant solution in terms of carried weight and ease of setup, pending someone developing a wireless protocol that can handle ultra-high bandwidths with minimal LoS issues and minimal latency. That might take long enough for there to be a niche for media-converter-based extensions, swapping the existing 4-5m copper cables for much longer, lighter and more flexible fibre-optic cables.
Ideally, a later version of the Constellation cameras would do the basic thresholding and blob centroid finding on-board (a relatively simple operation) so all they need to pass back to the cost PC is a strong of coordinates, rather than full frames. This is how ethernet-connected mocap tracking cameras operate. It's possible that the tracking PC and rendering PC could be separated such that one very basic PC is connected to the cameras and handles the image processing, and hands off a string of coords over WiFi (or bluetooth, or dedicated RF) to the mobile host PC to perform sensor fusion and all other operations, but this is overcomplicated for a consumer system.
Wireless video to the HMD is a far more elegant solution in terms of carried weight and ease of setup, pending someone developing a wireless protocol that can handle ultra-high bandwidths with minimal LoS issues and minimal latency. That might take long enough for there to be a niche for media-converter-based extensions, swapping the existing 4-5m copper cables for much longer, lighter and more flexible fibre-optic cables.
