Armed with nothing but his hopes and dreams (and a large array of infrared LEDs, and also reflective tape, and let's throw "dreams" in there again), YouTube user Johnny Lee designed a method for using the Wiimote to track his finger movements. Basically, by sticking reflective tape to his fingertips and shining a bunch of infrared light on them, he made his fingers into a moving sensor bar!
The Wii Remote picks up the reflected light and tracks the fingers' motion as if it were Wiimote motion. He then demonstrated some custom PC software that uses this gesture-based interface, manipulating some grids around by pointing at them.
This is super cool, obviously, but it also gives us a weird idea: if this works, then it means that you can set the Wiimote on top of your TV and use the sensor bar as a controller. Except for the motion sensing, and, uh, all the buttons.
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-12-2007 @ 10:41AM
troy said...
Truly bizarre, and makes you wonder what kind of weird controllers we could see for the Wii in the years to come.
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11-12-2007 @ 10:58AM
Zack W. said...
Kudos to that Guy!!!! Any idea if people are trying to do "out of the box" things with the other systems? I would guess not, but who knows?
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11-12-2007 @ 11:00AM
Zack W. said...
Oh, and also....possibility of a Wii POWER GLOVE?!?!?
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11-12-2007 @ 11:10AM
Lee said...
Zack, that would make boxing so much more tolerable
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11-12-2007 @ 11:37AM
hvnlysoldr said...
Mike Sylvester should get on this.
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11-12-2007 @ 10:07PM
Jreg said...
Like they said later on hackaday, no need for intense deadly ir transmitters, just make a small finger ir emitter. (battery, ir LED...)
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