SpacePad brings low-cost magnetic tracking to virtual reality game developers and designers of interactive experiences. Use SpacePad to instantaneously determine the position and orientation of one or more lightweight sensors attached to a person experiencing virtual reality. Its outputs furnish the motion cues needed to interact in real time with your virtual world.
SpacePad takes its name from the design of its unique magnetic-field transmitting antenna. The antenna is completely flat. It consists of a loop of wire locatable in a pad near the user. Antenna size and placement are user-adjustable. SpacePad lets you create virtual environments ranging in size from a few cubic feet to thousands of cubic feet.
You will find SpacePad perfectly suited for VR games in location-based entertainment and arcade settings. It lets you, for the first time, locate your own transmitter loops in the base of a game pod, configure loops between adjacent pods, embed loops in a sit-down module, or even on a wall to create a virtual room. Loops may also be configured to accommodate multiple users in virtual rides.
SpacePad's single electronics card is capable of simultaneously controlling two transmitters and up to four sensors. Since the transmitter is just a piece of wire, you provide it yourself once we configure it for your application. SpacePad eliminates your recurring transmitter costs. The electronics card is compatible with PCs and all other computers with an ISA-bus slot. Additional SpacePads may be used in close proximity to one another without interference.
We'll work with your engineering team to customize it for your game pod or VR application. We'll integrate SpacePad hardware and software into your product for you or if you'd rather do the integration yourself, we'll send you a free evaluation model.

SpacePad -- the breakthrough tracker -- destined to make a difference in your virtual world.

  Flexible transmitter design
  Multiple sensor tracking with single electronics unit
  OEM designed

  3Dconnexion
  Ascension
  InterSense
  Polhemus
  StereoGraphics

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 Ascension SpacePad® Data Sheet: spacepad.pdf (148 KB)

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