Cool stuff you can do with a Wiimote
A few days ago a saw a couple of the videos of Johnny Lee, a bright PhD student at CMU.
He has figured out of different and amazing ways to use the Wiimote. The first one is a method to tracking your fingers with the Wiimote. I like it, but found the whole thing is not very useful. Very ingenious anyway.
The next one, a $40 multi-point touchscreen is simply great.
I imagine some hardware manufacturer, even Nintendo, getting ideas from Johnny, like this previous one and planning the development of a higher resolution Wiimote.
In the last one, oh you gonna love this one, is really exiting. A head tracking for VR displays. I mean a way to see 3D stuff without any special lenses. You need “glasses, but … Just check it out, will you.
hum… I wander if using Papervision 3D, Sandy or Away3D with Wiiflash would make it possible to create some cool stuff with Flex or Flash. Lots of things to learn and experiment with.
You can follow along the comments on this experiment at Johnny’s blog.
In case you want even more, you can subscribe to his list to get notified when he releases new stuff at his CMU web page. Soon he will revealing something about 3D tracking.