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Wii-motely interesting stuff.

I’d not come across this guy before, many other people probably have though.

Johnny Lee of the Carnegie Mellon University has adopted the Wii-mote as his IR sensor, and using a bluetooth connection to a PC has created Whiteboards, and Head Tracking.. amongst other uses.

I’ve just had a browse of Johnny’s sourceforge page, and although the code has been ported to Mac (albeit with a few bugs) he’s still looking for a Linux Developer to port the application. I might have an ‘unofficial’ play with the software to see if I can port it – but I’m in no way an experienced programmer. If you can do it – please do take a look.

I’m sure other people can see the potential that this could have on Linux games

We’ll have 3D shoot-em-ups first.. come on

Here’s the video that impressed me the most:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw&rel=1]

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