UofT Research Project - The home-made Wii controller

[pooooo52]

cheap buy an wiimote

[xleo21]

wha was the wrapper application written in?

c++ or c?

[theTraveler3]

C++, using existing libraries that hooked into the VICON, it wasn't more than a few hundred lines of code that just smoothed input, and hooked into BF2

[kakaklak]

GO NERDS @ UofT. Is this equipment at the downtown campus?

[theTraveler3]

Yep, the DGP in BA is a magical room with equipment from the future... 3d printer, coolest thing ever.

[swimmerama]

As to be expected from a U of T student. This is amazingly cool.

[FrozenPixelStudio]

So to use this I need 50 HD cameras?

[theTraveler3]

Haha, at least 5-6. This was never meant to be an everyday solution. ;)

[Nada219]

Nice!..

I'm just going into U of T computer science!..

What course did this? Human-Computer interaction?

[theTraveler3]

This was actually a research project, every year certain profs let you work with them, which is much more fun and rewarding then normal courses IMO. I did this one with Ravin Balakrishnan. The course code is csc490

[dkrush08]

UT BITCHES!!!

[djfrogfm]

nice flight sim, what one is it?

[theTraveler3]

Battlefield 2

[jamaicob]

lol

[zindayn]

cool

[spidermillennium]

It is a waste of technology. I recommend you to use a tri-axial accelerometers in order to do this kind of "easy task" instead of use a system that cost many thousands of euros like the Vicon.

[theTraveler3]

Wouldn't call it a waste of technology ...

I had a 4th year research course that gave us a room of existing technology and we had 2 months to make something cool.

I didn't pay for the system, it was already there.. As I mentioned in my video description, sure beats writing a history paper ;)

[TheAlmightyRoyzo]

What you did is amazing!

Though if this would go commercial,

there should be something else than 10 camera's around you,

for such contraption isn't easy to put around your PC.

[AmNite]

thats so kool!! wish i could play bf2 like that! bf2 wii style

[TheZombix]

Why don't you create a program where it tracks what a web cam sees and what the computer screen shows, the mouse would be able to move where the webcam sees (in the middle) and where it distorts.

[jeracoo]

Very nice be great to have someone like you here at griffith

[christoffergray]

Very nice, the movement is so smooth and the controller itself responds for fast to the change in the X,Y,Z planes! So, why hasn't M$ or Nintendo hire you yet? lol

[funkture]

Hey, wicked video man

roaches were returned to their home, the bio labs :P

[ebaymag0t]

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