Way to go Johnny Lee

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Oh man. As if there wern’t enough reasons for me to go out and get a Wii.

(Too bad the main reason for not getting one is still the same: money)

Man you are fantastic!!
Tomorrow i’ll go out to buy a wii remote…
You give me new inspiration to do some code

Has anyone ever played any of the Konami Police 911 games? They track body movement and you have to duck or dodge to avoid bullets. I could just imagine it being truly 3D like this that would be amazing. With some type of smelly head device, (it wouldn’t have to be smelly but it would probably get sweaty and smelly from all the nerds using it.) They could even make a home version, just sell the user some glasses, and a wiimote stand and it would be awesome. The home one would probably be less smelly depending on the user.

I’m imagining some sort of dodgeball game or maybe a soccer goalie game. Very nice work. Johnny’s making Nintendo look bad, but I can’t wait for them to steal some of these ideas and put them into some great games.

DUDE!!!!!!

Sure, games, ok, but really as a shell enhancement, this would be KILLER!

Think about this…
1.) If the Wii remote will track four ir targets, then assume two are on the users head to control the POV, and the other two as light pens to manipulate objects on the screen.

2.) What is the frame rate of the Wii remote camera?

3.) Assuming the ir targets opperate in a steady state, how can the remote differentiate between targets?

4.) Assume POV target #1 is flashing at 10pps, #2 is flashing at 20pps, and the pens are at 30 and 40 pps. Then you could also have one pen as a “left click” and the other as a “right click”.

YMMV.

Noice!

Damn i am thinking of getting a wiimote now! This is some of the most cheapest but awesomest hacks i’ve seen!

Also, if Nintendo started doing games with these ideas :O omg.

It appears that Johnny Lee has done it again.

With two targets, one in front of the other, I was able to orbit my point of view around the near target and observe the far target. Remarkable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7e6ZsQytks

This leaves me with one question: who will be the first lucky company to snatch this fellow up with a hefty salary, in order to add such an innovative mind to the team?

You dont even need anything nintendo related, am IR camera (subst. wiimote) and two IR leds (subst. sensor bar) and your on your way!

Done and DONE!!!

I already tried it =3

Is there anything that this guy can’t do? Can’t he move in next door and invite me over so I can learn the ways of WiiHacking?

You could get this to track two different displays, and make them visible only to the person viewing them by using a 3d glasses like setup.

Example. Player one’s targets are all blue, and he has blue tinted goggles. Player Two has Red targets and Red goggles. Because red glass only lets red light through, (If its tinted right) that would make Player 1′s blue targets invisible to player 2, and vise-versa. (You would probably need some opacity to the colors to avoid collision.)

If a person diddnt want to buy a wiimote, where could you get an ir camera that has the onboard chip that ouputs the x-y coordinates? I have searched everywhere and cant seem to find anything similar.

@ 16… any infrared leds (2 minimum) wired to a power supply
@ 19… you need to get 2 infrared leds from an electronics shop, in the uk the best option is maplins in usa radioshack? you will also need to get resistors to protect them and some way to power them.. have a looksie at
http://www.instructables.com/id/leds-for-beginners/ should help you understand
@ 22… as 24 suggested the wiimote is actually one of the best options, but you can also convert a normal pc webcam into an infrared one (people do this alot for ftir based multitouch screens) and you could use something like touchlib to calculate the xy in software

Lets see a stereo optical PTZ camera system navigated by this :)

I did a similar consept some years ago with my class, using a webcam, flash and som nice IR LED, very simple and fun. Check it out
The electronic Snowball :)
http://skjelvik.com/portefolie/interaction2.1.html

Didn’t someone (SHarp I think) make an LCD display that was split so that people standing to one side saw one image and people on the other could watch something else? Combined with this you COULD have 2 player stuff…

the majority of games can easily be split screened, so I don’t see how multiple displays would be a problem (so long as you could differentiate between the headsets)

The real problem with multiplayer games of this sort would be the need for multiple players to maneuver around the screen for better viewing angles.

Still though, if combined with eDimentional’s shutter goggle 3D system, this could create some crazy realistic environment renderings.

once again johnny lee impresses with a hack that is cheap and impressive. This one has more practical uses than the last one, which was still pretty cool. I could see integrating this into my driveway game to make a 3d shooter in which you walk a bit forward to start moving forward, a bit back to start moving back and have some central location where you are standing still.

Turning might be counterintuitive but you’d get the hang of it. This could make for some really cool interactive games.

this is probably the most awesome use of the wiimote i’ve seen so far. however, you can fool johnny’s system into thinking you’re moving into and out of the screen by turning your head back and forth a little. i think it would be best to omit this feature and only allow the camera to move laterally.

I’d love tho see this as an option for image editors like the GIMP or Photoshop.

Freaking awesome!

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!!

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.

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wow amazing to good for words to describe this is obviously the next step in FPS games
maybe you can mod this to work with the homebrew DOOM game if you could it would give games a whole new perspective

Does anyone else have any experience with this?

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I thought that you would have a bit more feedback posted but anyway, great blog.

Can you provide more information on this?

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Thoughtful post and well written. Please write more on this if you have time.

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I would buy a Wii if it had head tracking and supported multiple screens for each player with a controller.

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How cool is that – nice work with that display