Cool tricks for the Wii (head tracking)

[eye_suc]

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

have any of you seen this? found this link posted on a local Wii forum.

what this guy has discovered is amazing. hopefully somebody will use his techniques to produce some software.

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space.

do yourself a favour, and watch his youtube vids. sheer genius

 

[Toxin]

That guy is a frikken genius!!!!

Amazing.

 

[Natas]

Seen it an while back, but what the video does do is illustrate the Wii's awesome awesomeness!!

 

[hj2k_x]

Hectic stuff this. When are we gonna see some games??

 

[hj2k_x]

The second vid, turning ANY surface into an interactive whiteboard is amazing as well! So simple, and, best of all, so cheap!