Please compile and release!

[wassgha]

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[touchhope]

It's true we're now all so impatient to see something work on our computers since Alexandru Bauer saw a pointing circle 2 months ago and we still don't know how his computer's configuration did made it possible to run with which good dlls ! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulFTmjiwmAA)
Before the penultimate update on github, the compiled code doesn't show anymore the blue error message from windows 10 but it still stop at 99.9% after downloading calibration data.

[touchhope]

I've just compiled from "Brand new (and much better!) stereo_processor" last update on github and I confirm we now pass the calibration data download step to "val_exposure" in console and get two little windows, one in violet, the other in black and white where you see your hands moving in realtime, but still no pointing circle...

[touchhope]

When copying database folder (empty in the build tree) from other version, we can get 3 more windows from track_plus.exe(32 bit):

image_palm_segmented0 (calculate where are your fingers on each of your hands)
image_palm_segmented1 (calculate where are your fingers on each of your hands)
image_preprocessed1 (black and white)
image_small1 (violet)
image_visualizationkladhflkjasdhf (In that last window, you can see a realtime tracking moving circle for each of fingertip. Also in that window on the left top, a grey and a white hand drawing each finger in realtime, but it seems to detect if it's the right hand to show the circles, apparently not moving if it's the left hand !)

But on my windows 10, track_plus.exe just run for few minutes before it crash (maybe roughly losing device detection) !

[sheley1998]

Hi guys! Definitely gonna compile and release this weekend, I'm under a ton of pressure right now cuz people are starting to leave the team. Made some serious progress on the algorithm in the past 2 weeks, so I'm gonna focus primarily on stability issues tonight.

[touchhope]

Hi Lai! Great job along all these long months! I'm admirative of such hard work for a young but brilliant engineer! I guess we're all so super excited, as you said last year, to see very soon now working what you've done! Congratulations again on your hard work despite the problems on the team!

[ak47clown]

Lai, your efforts are greatly appreciated and it's exciting that we may finally be able to use our touch+. Do you believe that we'll ever get an explanation from Darren on what happened to Ractiv after delivery of the hardware?

[touchhope]

Hi Lai! The calm before the storm of a new installer for a software full of brand new technology promises : you'll see what you see: something fantastic or nothing finally after so much effort, so much silence and hope disappointed ...

[alexanderzeillinger]

Déjà-vu?
We heard about the "definitive release this weekend" about the same time last year ago and exactly like now everything went silent afterwards. I feel like I'm part of some weird Kickstarter social study that checks how long people can be messed around with. Looks like the scientists are getting some interesting research data out of it.

[touchhope]

The bets are opened for the next deadline: 2015 Christmas or Chinese New Year under the sign of the monkey and the fire element February 8, 2016?

[touchhope]

Still some activity today on github :

sheley1998 deleted branch dense_pose_estimation at Ractiv/touch_plus_source_code
3 hours ago

[touchhope]

From the very last two regular updates, we now only get that message in console :

"settings file loaded
Error : non valid argument or option - « Files ».
Enter "TASKLIST /?" to show the syntax."

and nothing else for the moment... but there is still some activity on that project... and that is better than nothing... a little hope left... to get a first working version...

[touchhope]

Hi Lai! Since there is this community around this project, why not clearly establish a roadmap (as Justin Huang suggests on Wassim Gharbi's website http://gharbi.me/ractiv/index.php) to reach a new version that would work like the 0.55b on Alexandru Bauer's computer but with a win32 win64 of 7 to 10 compatibility and of course also on OSX?
Indeed, now that maybe everyone is gone at Ractiv except you, maybe some people within backers and buyers in this community could help you facing some issues on c++ if only they could know a little more about the current precise roadmap. Maybe not so much because you seems to mainly work on algorithm (Are you doing some "Robust Articulated-ICP for Real-Time Hand Tracking" like on https://github.com/OpenGP/htrack ?), but initial Ractiv's roadmap was : "Next Steps : As this is only the alpha version of the software, you can expect it to improve tremendously over time. We will be releasing updates weekly! Here’s what we’re working on, which you can expect in future updates soon. (in order of priority) :
(OSX support)
Linux support
SDK (will give you access to images, hand segmentation, and finger coordinates)
Multitouch gestures (pinch to zoom, two-finger scroll)
Table mode (manual calibration on untextured surfaces)
Improved tracking performance
Faster performance (including SSE and GPU acceleration) and lower CPU usage
Gesture learner (so you can teach Touch+ to recognize different gestures to activate different functions)
3D hand model"