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Title: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: JennyB on December 22, 2007, 03:35 PM

This is a really neat bit of inverted thinking.

The Wii Remote tracks its position in space relative to fixed points of IR light. Johnny Chung Lee (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/) demonstrates how a fixed Wiimote can track up to four points simultaneously, adding multitouch or head-tracking capabilities cheaply to any PC display.

Demos with open C# source code (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wiiwhiteboard/) and plenty of scope for further development.  :-*

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: Darwin on December 22, 2007, 03:44 PM

Sounds cool, Jenny  :Thmbsup: You forgot the link, though  :(

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: nevf on December 23, 2007, 05:47 PM

Very, very cool. Thanks for sharing. Now if only I had a Wii.

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: JennyB on December 24, 2007, 05:32 AM

Very, very cool. Thanks for sharing. Now if only I had a Wii.

-nevf (December 23, 2007, 05:47 PM)

You don't need the console itself, just a PC with Bluetooth and the Wiimote, which es a bit  easier to find at present!  :)

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: Eóin on December 24, 2007, 08:38 AM

Wow wow wow, got to start playing around with that, I's really cool.

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: Deozaan on May 26, 2008, 04:58 AM

So I'd seen the first two videos months ago and thought they were kind of cool but not all that great. But tonight I just saw the head-tracking video for the first time.

WOW! That is impressive!

I think artists like Nudone may be interested in the Whiteboard capabilities --> Turn your wall into a virtual canvas.

Or with head-tracking you could even turn your wall into a virtual window. Find a nice live feed of a beach in the tropics and get the image set up to work with this software...

Title: Re: Multi-touch and Head-tracking demos wth PC and Wiimote
Post by: steeladept on May 26, 2008, 05:25 AM

CMU huh?  I am here in Pittsburgh, where CMU is located.  Maybe I should look him up  :P