More Stereo Web Cams.

After looking for some stereo webcams I found two of them that look very interesting. The first one is called Minoru and it has been used by ROS users. It seems to work good enough for it's price $$$$ so I will buy it in order to start using the VSLAM stack.

This is the webpage of the minoru stereo webcam http://www.minoru3d.com/

The second one is one called Hydra webcam, from nVela. It looks a very nice stereo webcam and it is synchronized. It allows the user to control it with low level programs and it includes C++ codes to make different image treatment. The main software that this camera includes is only for windows but the manufacturers say they will launch a Linux and Mac version too.

This is the webpage of the Hydra stereo webcam http://www.nvela.com/hydra.html

This is an interesting set of questions about VSLAM by the ROS Users community:
http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/Questions-about-VSLAM-td1784417.html

This is a video of how was implemented the Minoru webcam on ROS.
http://www.ros.org/news/2010/04/v4l2stereo-and-minoru-stereo-webcam-integrated-with-ros.html

this is an aplications with a pendulum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_37S3q2Z-qk

This is an intersting page about the Minoru webcam, it's hardware and the code to use it.
http://code.google.com/p/sentience/wiki/MinoruWebcam

This other page is about the monocular vision odometry, it might be usefull to make odometry readings with a monocular camera.
http://www.hessmer.org/blog/2010/08/17/monocular-visual-odometry/