This video is a month-ish old but I’m posting it here as some discussions with friends last night indicated some hadn’t seen it yet, so I promised to post it here. Enjoy!
Man bites Ogre
This video is a month-ish old but I’m posting it here as some discussions with friends last night indicated some hadn’t seen it yet, so I promised to post it here. Enjoy!
January 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Amazing! The first time I have seen this, just found a few of his other Wii hacks too - Clever guy.
Will have to pick up a Wiimote I think…
January 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Thanks…
I’ll take a look when I get home.
January 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Meaning of course that my work PC won’t let me view it
January 29th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
IMHO, Benefits for gaming are limited using it in the fashion of demo. A window into the world just will not work, unless you have the room full of monitors. This is because it is not natural for a person to have such a restricted view of the world.
Will definitely have applications moving the virtual player around, (think Time Crisis or similar). But this is not the same as a window into the world as it will move the camera’s position, not rotation.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Amazing, I hadn’t seen that before either!
January 29th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Hehe, this guys cool, very geeky, yet intriguing to watch. Plus his research kicks ass.
Raven, I dont think the implementation of this in a game needs to be so limited that you cant still freely move about. Imagine if you had the nun-chuck aswell, you could move the joystick thumb to move the character around. In a FPS perspective, the headtracking movement need only be small, locally relative movements, like leaning around corners and peering over barriers. But this small local movement can continue whether your running around or not.
The small movements you make in your living room, a step from left to right for example, has a large influence on your line of sight to a target, especially over greater distances.
Also I reckon the side-stepping movements be good dodge moves in fighting games like Tekken.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Wow - yes that has a hell of a lot of potential!
Why on earth aren’t the developers out there banging onhis door?
January 29th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I saw this, and this guys site, and was quite impressed. I’ve seen head tracking gear’s prices “professionally” (through work) and a Wii-mote blows it away.
I wasn’t too impressed with all the Wii-mote hacking buzz, until reading this guys site and it says the Wii-mote has hardware based tracking for four IR points. That made the difference for me. Now I see why it’s cool, from a technical point of view. And this guy just keeps coming up with “doh of course it’s obvious” ideas (that are of course not obvious until you see them).
January 30th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Yeah, personally I don’t see why you can’t let the player move the ‘window’ around with standard controls - the head tracking just becomes a supplemental motion on top of that. The main thing is that it’s quite a custom set-up right now - if you did it on the Wii you’d need 2 remotes for example, which might be a problem for mainstream sales. I do however see huge potential for the technique in custom VR applications.
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