Reflective material

[9./JG54_Kirin]

Greetings aces,

I was looking on the web for a supplier of reflective tape in order to built my own reflector. I found several sites supplying reflective tape for bicycles. Now does that work with TrackIR?

For example there: http://veloplus.ch/detail.asp?IDK=10&IDA=924

My understanding is that those reflectors throw back any form of "light" - so even infrared? I was trying out a reflective band I got for trousers which gave back bad results within the tracking program - but I think that was a low quality band anyway.

Any advice?

[glaspere]

quote:Originally posted by 9./JG54_Kirin:
Greetings aces,

I was looking on the web for a supplier of reflective tape in order to built my own reflector. I found several sites supplying reflective tape for bicycles. Now does that work with TrackIR?

For example there: http://veloplus.ch/detail.asp?IDK=10&IDA=924

My understanding is that those reflectors throw back any form of "light" - so even infrared? I was trying out a reflective band I got for trousers which gave back bad results within the tracking program - but I think that was a low quality band anyway.

Any advice?Why not just buy the raw material here at NaturalPoint?
Naturalpoint Store

EG

[9./JG54_Kirin]

... because I sit in Switzerland, Europe. So the shipping cost is like 10x the actual prize of one material unit...

I found some reflective tape which works rather fine. The only problem is that is broke into hexagons which come visible when I move more than 30 degrees. So i have to use a sphere to get 90 degrees reflection all the time - which isn't very easy since the tape is rather inflexible and rather stubborn.

But it kinda works. I have mounted on a 1cm wide styrene ball stuck to a 15cm wooden stick which I glued to my headphones!