Wiimote Desktop Virtual Reality

[ripcurl010]

dont laugh this is cutting edge technology lmfao

your funny guy

great project

[ripcurl010]

cool

[soft2buy]

very useful indeed!

[Frankfurtxxl]

the sensorbar has 10 led´s

[Anenome5]

Dude, that's a really cool demo. This would definitely be useful for, say, genetic research and others areas where visualization is important.

[Hanagatta]

I have no word´s....

[sver3]

cool!

[dacooter]

that is AWESOME!!! you should do a trtorial on how to use the wiimote to do this.

[1337noOob]

I laughed at the "cutting-edge technology" part :D

[leokolln]

I have a good idea for you to film this.

Put the LD Beacon over the the camera, this way you can registry a good point of view to who is viewing the video.

Try and you will understand!

[tigerhellmaker]

Pretty nice.

But why WIImote is better that normal usb camera ?

[vrwizard]

Actually the wiimote is used as a camera. Of course you also can do marker tracking with an usb camera. The cool thing here is, that with the Wiimote, which originally is a game controller, you can even do 6DOF tracking. Obviously you can't do this with an XBOX360 or PS3 controller :) Compared to using an USB camera, it allready does the marker recognition for you, so it saves you some work on image recognition and hardware manipulation (ir-filter).

[h0lyRS]

Very cool. I wonder if one could use this as a virtual Lego builder, where you could hold the piece on your hand, rotate and position it any way you like it, and then press a button to fix it in the desired place. Then you could kind of travel around your 3D Lego sculpture, with head-tracking and all.