Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit http://johnnylee.net.
In addition to more Wii projects, his site also has instructions for building a $14 steadycam mount for your video camera.
This dude rocks!
OLD NEWS!
I saw this last week. If you guys would spend less time doing your jobs and more time using Stumble at work, you’d be more timely.
(I’m joking with you Hopper)
This is, in fact, very cool.
[Whew! – ed.]
#2,
But you didnt catch it…this video was Over 1 year old..
AND NO ONE caught that, before posting it on ALOT of sites.
[Actually it’s only a little over two weeks old. – ed.]
Not bad for a Gamecube on steroids.
Nerdy AND cool!
Hopefully someone hires this kid, and breaks his spirit.
Whoa! That is such a simple but amazing solution that it is VERY surprising that it has not become a standard accessory to computers and OS’s.
Imagine something as simple as being able to lean forward and have more stuff displayed on the bottom of your screen (like you are looking over the edge), and see something like the time, or the screen consuming ‘gadgets’ that we have now.
Or just leaning sideways to see other open apps and click on them to bring them forward.
I expect this simple technology to be offered incorporated into monitors pretty soon.
#3 – ECA – But you didnt catch it…this video was Over 1 year old.. AND NO ONE caught that, before posting it on ALOT of sites.
It was posted on December 21, 2007. But don’t let that stop you from feeling like a king…
BALLIN! thats all i have to say! i want my desktop in 3d with that thing
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
I may have miss-read the site, but DID you find his site??
[There was a link to his site in the post. – ed.]
The illusion is ruined when the one target goes off the screen. Still cool though.
Hmm. Macworld is this Tuesday. Maybe…NAH!
If you think about it…
WHAT improvements have been done to Graphics cards??
Faster, yes.
more POWER, yes.
But real options havent been added.
Wow! I do not have depth perception and that was the most 3-D reality I’ve experienced in my life. Seriously… I was actually freaked out and made nauscious by the motion, so it must be pretty good! Is that the reality you mortals live with all the time?!