viewer-centered perspective and hand-tracked steering

[mUogoro]

Dear vdrift guys,

I'm posting here with the purpose of requesting for some hints about vdrift modification. I'm attending a Virtual Reality course in my university, and part of the final grade is given by a project/demo where we've to use physical simulation and head-and-hand tracking. My idea is to modify the vdrift source code, adding these features:

- inside-car camera view based on head position: using opencv, track the head position and modify what the player sees depending on his head position (something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLz3IscAT...04F208119C);
- handle the steering wheel tracking a marker used by the player as a real wheel (e.g. using a sheet of paper with a marker drawn on it, tracking the marker to get the corresponding rotation);
- physical simulation: I've still no idea how to add something related to physic simulation on my planned vdrift modification. Maybe just some objects (dice, a cup of coffe, this kind of simple stupid things...) that move inside the car as it turns.

I've still to check the source code and figure out if this kind of modifications are feasible in the short period of time I have (about one month). I think I'll go through the code during the weekend. By the way, any kind of advice is really appreciated, as well as your ideas about the feasibility of the project.

Best,
Daniele