Free Myo Alpha Development Kit

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@Graham3D;125865

I couldn’t find your youtube channel getnamo, could you link us?
I am purchasing one Myo device to use with a game I’m developing with UE4, can you elaborate on how your plugin works? Does your plugin allow UE4’s blueprint to recognize hand signs by any chance? The game I’m developing uses hand signs to cast spells.
I’m going to PM you if that’s cool.

I noticed this thread reply quite late, just wanted to give a heads up that since the device went beta, the myo plugin is now available publicly
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In terms of performance, the myo reports 9-axis IMU (acceleration, magnetometer, gyro) at low latency and currently about 6 reliable EMG hand poses. You could definitely close your fist, make some motions and emit a hadoken

@BlackRang666;126338

STEMs still make more sense for my current project, but these look like they have a lot of potential for applications where hands empty is more logical. I’ll keep looking into these.

There are strengths and weaknesses for both. Myo is a simple wireless device which allows you to do non-joystick interaction, it feels quite natural when you use it. STEM will have more accurate position data due to underlying technology (direct position tracking through magnetism), but I am testing constrained acceleration integration to see if hand placement can’t be more accurately predicted in the myo. That would allow for IMU class controllers to be usable as 1:1 hand controllers.

Nothing says you can’t use both either, using a myo on your wrist would give accurate forearm angles. The fusion of both systems would then allow you to map your arm’s position fully, without relying on IK joint-based elbow prediction. Having that sort of hardware fusion happen automatically is one of the goals of the VRMotionInput plugin which I hope to have released someday.