If you haven’t already seen the videos of Johnny Lee’s work with the Nintendo Wii remote, prepare to be amazed. His first two demos – Minority Report-style finger tracking and a multi-touch display that can be projected onto any surface – are cool enough but his latest effort defies belief.
Check it out: Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote.
This entry was posted by Tamlyn on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pm and is tagged with 3d, cool, games, graphics, nintendo, research, virtualreality, Wii and is posted in the category Tech News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
OMG!
Anyone else think that Nintendo might be sending the boys around after that vid?
Peace be with you Kelly.
That last one was absolutely brilliant!
Clever guy, but I am sure that the Nintendo guys have thought of that stuff as well, no doubt further down the Wii life cycle we will start seeing this stuff, Whoopee!
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Nintendo should really hire this guy and make him head of their R&D department. He's brilliant.
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