POV glasses for training

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Anyone have one of these cheapos? They are under $20 on ebay.

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Thinking about getting a set to help me and others I play with see exactly how much their head moves on shots and where they line up. Quality is probably not that good though but may be good enough to show what I want to show and is probably better than a GoPro or something because it's exactly where your eyes are.
 
I bought a pair about a year ago. With shipping the total was $106. Brand name is HD Myopia.

No good for pool. The camera tilts down when you get down on the ball.

I tried wearing them on top of my head like people do with sunglasses, still no good.

I will look at some clips and see if there are an worth uploading.
 
JohnnyP said:
I bought a pair about a year ago. With shipping the total was $106. Brand name is HD Myopia.

No good for pool. The camera tilts down when you get down on the ball.

I tried wearing them on top of my head like people do with sunglasses, still no good.

I will look at some clips and see if there are an worth uploading.
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What if they were used with one of those glasses bands that skiiers and others use during action sports?

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The ones I see on ebay are well under $20, may be interesting to try.
 
I made a strap out of elastic band from a fabric store. Still no help.

Down on the shot, looking over the top of the eyeglass frame, the camera is pointing down. All you can see is my bridge and the cueball at the top of the video frame.
 
JohnnyP said:
I made a strap out of elastic band from a fabric store. Still no help.

Down on the shot, looking over the top of the eyeglass frame, the camera is pointing down. All you can see is my bridge and the cueball at the top of the video frame.
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Too bad, seemed like a nice cheap way to record a POV shot from where the player was looking at. I do have a cheap very light clip on camera I got, going to try that thing with my glasses. Only thing is that if someone does not wear glasses, they'd have to put on frames or something to do the same thing.

I bet in 20-30 years someone will make contact lenses for the mass market with recordable options so then you can really see not just the overall head motion but even where your eyes are looking at when you shoot.
 
not necessarily sick about this. but i bought a pair of these from newegg several years ago for 100+ i used them for sport fishing.

just found the actual sale page
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16881750001

the audio and video was pretty decent. especially for a low res set. the camera pin hole is located above the bridge of the nose between the eyes basically. i could only get my set to read up to a 4gb micro sd card. i was smart enough to do testing to ensure my head was in the correct position to record where the action was....or so i thought. i ended up recording just above everything i wanted to... for me at least its quite difficult not to move my eyes instead my entire head.
 
The problem with POV glasses is that the camera is pointing in a fixed direction but your eyes are not. So getting down on a shot, the glasses will not show what the shooter is seeing.
 
JohnnyP said:
Duh. I said that above.

Uploaded video here:

http://youtu.be/II6zJFYgHKE
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That is actually not bad at all. Thanks a lot for taking the time to upload this. You can see the full cueball and the shaft and if your head moves or not. While you don't see the full shot line to the object ball, that was not really what I was after.

I think I'll order a pair, the ones off ebay are like $15 including shipping. My son goes though that much money in snack food and soda in a day during summer vacation LOL even if it turns out to be crappy, my 9 yr old daughter would have a blast recording stuff around the yard with them.

Only thing, you need to remember to turn them off when heading to the bathroom.
 
JohnnyP said:
I bought a pair about a year ago. With shipping the total was $106. Brand name is HD Myopia.

No good for pool. The camera tilts down when you get down on the ball.

I tried wearing them on top of my head like people do with sunglasses, still no good.

I will look at some clips and see if there are an worth uploading.
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I watched your video. It appears on the video your cue tip is right of center, of the CB, on most of the shots and it also appears your stroke has an inside to outside loop, like you're rolling your wrist. Is this reality or just the skew of the video camera creating an illusion? Not meant at all as stroke critique, just wondering if it is real or a result of the camera. I'm hoping it is real, because if it is, I can see how using the glasses could be helpful.
 
nobcitypool said:
I watched your video. It appears on the video your cue tip is right of center, of the CB, on most of the shots and it also appears your stroke has an inside to outside loop, like you're rolling your wrist. Is this reality or just the skew of the video camera creating an illusion? Not meant at all as stroke critique, just wondering if it is real or a result of the camera. I'm hoping it is real, because if it is, I can see how using the glasses could be helpful.
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Unless you keep the cue lined up in the middle of your eyes, the camera would show you a different angle, much like when you look at something and cose one eye or the other, the image seems to jump to a different location.

The only way to get a good point of view of the hit is to mount a camera on the shaft, or use a stereo cemera with both lenses calibrated to your pupil location.

What you can see with those if your head is moving prior to the shot and also if your tip is moving around during your stoke. It would be tough to get a clear picture of exactly how you are lined up to the shot using a camera like this.
 
ELBeau said:
Max Eberle shot a rack of American Rotation with the GoPro headset
I see some of the <$20 EBay headsets have varying degrees of resolution and memory space.
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I thought that was quite good viewing. You obviously can't see the shooter but it appears he gets down pretty low over the shot. I'm guessing this affects how accurate the video appears as the lower the shooter, the closer to straight on the camera sees. I can see how this would be quite helpful. Max certainly keeps his head quite still while shooting. It appeared the show his tip placement on the CB quite nicely as well.
 
combined concepts

Nice video Johnny. You are always putting in the work on the table.

If it were possible, I think it would be interesting to see simultaneous screen displays of your accelerometer/cue harmonics work in concert with video recordings of the shots at the same time.

Both visual and cue vibration feedback simultaneously??

Maybe not possible...but if anybody could do it..it would be you.

Was the video made with the glasses, or a conventional type camcorder?

Take care


ps: My apology..I mistook you for another John(Tues/nite league John) the other nite on POV chat...I didn't know your last name..just as :confused: JohnnyP. Now I know...my bad.
 
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