Engineer unlocks Wii’s hidden potential
By Megan • Jan 28th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Stephen Shankland reports for Cnet News:
“I support the hardware hacking philosophy on principle, but most of the movement’s labors have left me uninspired. That all changed when I started seeing the uses that Carnegie Mellon researcher Johnny Chung Lee has found for the Nintendo Wii’s infrared remote control.
In a collection of videos, notable for their lucid explanations, the Ph.D. graduate student from CMU’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute shows exactly how versatile the “Wiimote” system can be. Among the uses he convincingly demonstrates: a virtual-reality head-tracker; a virtual whiteboard on a wall, tabletop, and laptop screen; and a Minority Report-style arm-waving and finger-pointing multitouch user interface.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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