More Wii innovation: head tracking

6 Jan 2008  Technology

Someone just sent a mail to the xorg and compiz mailing lists, pointing to this YouTube video regarding a new way of (ab)using the Nintendo Wii to control a virtual environment. If you didn’t see it yet, check it out, it’s rather impressive:

I don’t know whether this could actually be useful in a pure desktop environment, but for games (although I’m no gamer myself) I could imaging this offers a whole new spatial experience. Up to Nintendo or third-party vendors to design and commercialize the necessary gadgets or remotes.

Too bad there’s not enough empty space around our TV at home, otherwise I think I’d buy a Wii, love the tennis game ;-)

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5 Responses to “More Wii innovation: head tracking”

  1. Anonymous said on 6 Jan 2008 @ 10:36 pm

    How about around a monitor with a composite, S-video, or component inputs?

  2. menesis said on 6 Jan 2008 @ 10:42 pm

    where’s the link to, or embed of youtube?

  3. Nicolas said on 6 Jan 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    It should be in there, but maybe the fact I use some WP plugin to display YouTube embeds is set-up to generate XHTML compliant code, and your browser doesn’t like this. I’ll switch it off.

    @Anonymous: actually I got one of those, but it’s rather small (17″ TFT monitor)

  4. Marius Gedminas said on 7 Jan 2008 @ 12:59 am

    One thing about Gnash is that it can cope with videos directly on YouTube, but shows only a useless white rectangle if you try to embed them somewhere else.

  5. OasisGame said on 17 Jan 2008 @ 2:10 am

    Used in a pure desktop environment you say?
    http://wiki.compiz-fusion.org/Plugins/Wiitrack

    Enjoy.

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