Of course, it's only just a patent. We've no idea about the possibility of this device actually becoming a product on retail shelves.
[Via Engadget]
Apple comes up with their own Wiimote
Of course, it's only just a patent. We've no idea about the possibility of this device actually becoming a product on retail shelves.
[Via Engadget]
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5-09-2008 @ 9:04PM
Jeff said...
Cant they come up with there own ideas?
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5-09-2008 @ 10:18PM
zrockstar said...
The idea of an accelerometer style remote though was not new with the wii. I recently bought an alienware hangar 18 media center. It comes standard with the logitech gyro remote. you hold down a button and move the remote around which moves the cursor on the screen around according to your movement. It's so much nicer and easier than using a mouse (especially since I'm now also used to using the wiimote)
Not sure if it has an accelerometer, but it's the same basic idea. Logitech's remote has been around since at least 2005, pre-wii.
Sooooooo, the Apple patent shouldn't be too surprising or worrisome.
Check out the following link: go under menu and wireless to learn more
http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/hangar18/hangar18_features.aspx#pdp-nav
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5-10-2008 @ 2:39AM
Kokomadeta said...
Watch, Apple releases it, Microsoft came up with it years ago and it bombed, and everyone hails Apple because of their "new" and "revolutionary" product, and it dominates the market. The same thing happened with Apple's iPod vs. Creative's Zen line. And for the record, Creative did a video player in that vein first, Apple reverse-engineered the Zen, got sued by Creative, and now Creative makes money on every iPod sold.
iDon't iPod. iNot [insert alternate word for 'happy' here].
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5-10-2008 @ 12:40PM
wiiboyuk101-2008 said...
MICROSOFT DID what i-d-i-o-t fanboy
nintendo innovated this shit noooooooooooooooooooooo one else did any such thing,, bill gates personal rent boy your trying to pretend bill gates your love god some how beat nintendo to the 3d wiimote innovation so you can say its a innovation when the x360 version is shown
bill gates personal little sex rent boy i presume
silly fanbitch above is trying to build up a new version of realality in his microsoft fanboy head what a compleat GAY
i bet he called wiimote silly and not for hardcore gamers when bill gates was saying that then when bill gates called it casual he changeed his gay fanboy mind then when bill gates shows off a sub version of wiimote that will work like crap
hell say 1 micrsoft inovation and 2 its better than wiimote
go suck a gates family cock you compleat idiot
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5-10-2008 @ 12:49PM
OLD-BIG-HEAD said...
gyro motion is not anywere as advanced as wiimote your missing the point IDIOTS nintendo inovated everything about the wiimote and had it in development for years they dont personally make chips and special hardware the gyro tech your speaking of combined with nintendos own hard work and engineering made the wiimote a reallity
its clearly a nintendo inovation your gyro whatever is no wiimote IDIOT
AND MICRSOFTS MOTION PAD A FEW YEARS AGO IS NO MORE ADVANCED 3D MOTION TECH ITS A TILT SENCER OF LIQUIED MERCURY INSIDE JUST THE SAME AS THE GBA TILT GAMES
SORRY YOUR ALL NOW CORRECTED
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5-10-2008 @ 3:17PM
Haohmaru said...
Try counting to ten before posting. It may help your problem with SCREAMING AT NO ONE IN PARTICULAR FOR THE SAKE OF IT.
5-11-2008 @ 9:40PM
zrockstar said...
If you would read the posts more carefully OBH you would see that I said it was the basic idea i.e. moving a remote around in 3 dimensions to move a cursor on the screen. I fully agree that nintendo's wiimote is very innovative and a marvel of technology for the gaming world, HOWEVER, you can't argue that the basic idea has been around for quite some time.
The point was...that Apple is not really stealing anything UNLESS they start taking the actual tech specs of the accelerometer etc. used in the wiimote.
glad I could correct it.
5-11-2008 @ 2:39PM
Dmobxxx said...
Hmmmm...
...what if the big N and the big A team up in some way? I remember hearing a rumor awhile back that the big N would be making games(or something)for the big A's new range ipod of products. That was BEFORE the iphone and ipod touch were released, when speculation ran rampant as to what the big A's next step would be...
Of course, nothing ever happened with that rumor, and such a partnership would be HIGHLY unlikely at best.
Still...weirder things have happened.
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5-11-2008 @ 2:47PM
Dmobxxx said...
"...new range OF ipod products..."
FIXED
Typos suck...lol