PR2 Surrogate

 

Willow Garage integrated the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset into RViz and, based on that, created a package for the PR2 robot called PR2 Surrogate. It lets you teleoperate a PR2 using the Oculus Rift and the Razer Hydra game controllers. The Oculus RIFT was used to get the The Razer Hydra game controllers consist of two paddles you hold in your hands that precisely track their position and orientation in space. In addition, the controllers have the standard joysticks and buttons you find on a gamepad. The entire setup was in Linux.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PR2 Surrogate demonstration at Willow Garage