[dundee] Incredible Wiimote hacks

Andrew Clayton andrew at digital-domain.net
Fri Feb 29 16:16:42 GMT 2008


On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:20:39 +0000, Rick Moynihan wrote:

> I mentioned these incredible wiimote hacks to some of you last night.
> 
> I almost fell off my chair when I saw the 3D head-tracking one.  The
> 3D effect is literally unbelievable!  Can you imagine the games?
> 
> The multi-touch is pretty awesome too.
> 
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
> 
> It's just a shame it's implemented under .Net... Anyone fancy doing
> Linux port :-)

Actually Peter Hutterer (of MPX fame) has already done an xorg wiimote
driver, http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/127

Search wiimote on youtube, you'll find various vdeos of the wiimote
being used under Linux.


Andrew



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