3D Wii: How to turn your Wii into a virtual reality head tracker
Posted by Kevin Hoffman at 7:39 PM Apr 09, 2008
Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon creates a virtual reality display using the Wii remote. It turns your computer screen into a window, and allows you to actually look "behind" the image on the screen. Can you imagine playing a first-person shooter with this?
Lee has also found a way to use the Wiimote to track fingers, much like in Minority Report:
And here's how to create a whiteboard with the Wii, in case you want to impress your bosses by playing videogames during board meetings:
You can see more Johnny Lee videos here.
Comments
So how far away are we from the virtual girlfriend from The Sixth Day?
Posted 04/10/2008 at 01:56:58 AMgreat reporting you fucking retard, every wii fan boy has already seen this, downloaded his examples and made sweet head tracking wiimote love to johnny lee. why? because it came out last year. at bare minimum you could have at least linked to Johnny's personal CMU site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/) about his projects and given people more detail instead of pointing people to youtube.
Posted 04/10/2008 at 03:20:48 AM