Wiimote head tracking desktop VR display
If you thought [Johnny Lee] was done making us all buy Wiimotes, you were wrong. Now he's back showing off a simple, but incredibly effective VR head tracker. He swapped out the LED's on a pair of LED light safety glasses with a set of IR LEDs and used his PC/Wiimote combo to do the work. The demo is just fantastic. As usual, you can download the software from his project page.
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(Page 3)43. i have never seen any of johnny lee's hacks, but this is a Great one! like he mentioned at end of vid, hopefully some Wii game developers will make something that can utilze this! way to go johnny!!
Posted at 7:00PM on Jan 4th 2008 by yanges
44. Now this is really awesome. I would like to see this integrated into Ubuntu Linux. Your desktop can be bigger than the screen. I also like the idea of using it to control a mouse as well. I was thinking a device in your hand that points, and you press a button and the computer recieves a seperate signal through bluetooth that there was a mouse click, and reads where the pointer was on the screen to process the click.
45. You know how cool this would be for a boxing game and it you did it right you could make the glasses 3d like red one side of the glasses and blue the other and enhance the effect even more.
Posted at 1:07AM on Mar 16th 2008 by Byfly13
41. with just two IR LEDS you get 4 degrees of freedom(up down, left right, in out and rotation in the screen's plane). if you add just one more in a triangular configuration so that one of the LEDS is closer or further away from the other two, then you can in fact get 6 degrees of freedom.
Look up trackIR or freetrack for an open source implementation of the concept, but using IR cameras instead of a wiimote. i was intending to do this with the wiimote but mine hasn't arrived yet.
Posted at 4:19PM on Dec 29th 2007 by bencoder