Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

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. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net

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[Linkey19]

2007...and 6 years later Nintendo does nothing about this great idea.

[GodzillaGuy92]

How am I only just learning about this? Quasi-gimmicky though it may be, this is amazing!

[Nova3803]

Nintendo, hire this guy

[ronpack]

haha ya, thanks for not being an a-hole. take care dude o/

[Definitelynot Andrew]

He used a Wii-mote, but the Playstation Move is the correct arrangement straight out of the box, with the camera attached to the TV and the light source in the player's hand.

Sony should've done something with this great idea. They already have a TV department devoted to 3D technology.

[heretic1915]

i know what you mean glad we could talk this out like people unlike most people on youtube who use very mean words lol

[ronpack]

I understand. I find it to be easy and more enjoyable. I have always been a PC gamer when it comes to FPS type games. Mouse and keyboard is the best (to me). But when I play FPS type games on the Wii that lets me walk around with the numchuck and aim with the Wiimote, I do pretty good. It just feels natural. To each their own.

[heretic1915]

just just dont like the wii i dont want to play games that i have to control a game like that

[beachbum111111]

This is what nintendo should have done for the wii u not the fucking tablet controller

[ronpack]

Why not? It's a masterpiece considering how it's the first game to let you use the Wiimote as a flashlight. Was total innovation for it's time.

[heretic1915]

i didnt vote you down but i know alot of people dont like that one for the wii

[ronpack]

wow, fuck you everybody for voting me down. you're all a bunch of fucking douchebags