Wii Controller for Virtual Reality

have they tried this with wii motion + ?

but the motion+(plus) makes the same!
or not?

I changed my mind about the motion plus. Initial reports said it had two rate gyros, which wouldn't have been enough. Turns out it actually has three, which is sufficient for instantaneous 6-DOF tracking, akin to what's shown in the video.

You'll still need some kind of LED array, since instantaneous tracking will lose accuracy very quickly. The LEDs are then used to correct for this drift.

In short, the motion plus would make the software shown here work better.

I'm not sure about the 3rd gyro. can it sense any rotational acceleration around the vertical axis when the wiimote is layed down on its right or left side?

According to the tech specs and the bluetooth protocol, yes. The motion plus contains one two-gyro integrated device, and a separate third gyro.

Therefore it should be able to detect rotation around any axis, no matter how it's oriented. But I don't own one, so I can't test it.

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Aaand.. Thats my learning for the year.

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That was very interesting. Thanks!
Have you tried developing these tests further with the motion plus to get greater accuracy?
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