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Wii Hacking [Update to post November 19, 2007]

By the-uMe ⋅ April 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Johnny Lee’s talk at TED. This guy is absolutely amazing view the clip below. Here’s his original debut on youtube: Tracking fingers with the Wii Head Tracking:

Nintendo Wii meets ‘Minority Reports’

By admin ⋅ November 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

The release of the Nintendo Wii raised the HCI bar in relation to gaming. With such an innovative product, people have been captivated and have decided to hacked/mod the Wii remote. Here are a couple of my favorites: Tracking fingers with the Wii: and… Wii Remote Controlled Robots: Insights in to the creation of the [...]

levelHead

By admin ⋅ October 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Designed by Julian Oliver ‘levelHead’ introduces a unique type of game play. This is what he says on his site: levelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver. It uses a cube – with an image on each face – as its only interface.It uses a single webcam (EyeToy) to capture the image and [...]

Virtual Me

By admin ⋅ August 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Real time 3D rendered avatar face over your own via a web cam – looks like fun see more clips here

Soundball [Physical+Virtual Toys]

By admin ⋅ July 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Cool football created by Aleksei R. Stevens that connects to a computer via bluetooth and plays sound whist being played with. Here’s the clip: I love toys/object merging the boundaries between the virtual and the physical, the Nabaztag is a great example of this.I’ve Gotta get me one of those ‘wabbits’ – Might have to [...]

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