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Sony Patent for a VR Glove
From MaxConsole : A patent filed by Sony on November 7 2002 went live on January 9 of this year. The patent describes some sort of VR GLOVE which fits in the palm of the hand. Control sensors…
Read More »WiiRobot and a sword
That’s pretty cool! More infos at TechEBlog
Read More »Wiirtools
At last, the use of a Wiimote inside Virtools! You don’t even need a specific BB, only read values from a virtual joystick or emulate keystrokes. Thanks to Carl Kenner for GlovePie and Deon van der Westhuysen for…
Read More »Novint Falcon Demo, begins shipping June18th 2007 for $239.
From Novint webpage : The highly anticipated, award-winning Novint Falcon will begin shipping in a Limited Edition Bundle on June 18th, 2007. The exclusive bundle includes a Limited Edition Falcon, Newton’s Monkey Business Game Pack, with 24 fun…
Read More »ART FingerTracking
A neat new optically tracked device by ART, the FingerTracking : The Fingertracking device is now fully integrated in the DTrack system, wireless and able to track two hands with three fingers each. The Fingertracking device is an…
Read More »Sony to copy Wiimote ?
Sony is thinking about a “motion-sensitive controller”that would work like TrackIR and ART, that is with markers on the device and a camera to analyse their position. The Wii-mote has the camera inside the device and the markers…
Read More »Using the Wii accelerometers on the PC
Seems some people have connected the bluetooth Wiimote to a PC and started getting infos about the accelerometers. Here’s a page about the Wiimote protocol. This video (from marcan42 on youtube) is very shaky, so prepare for some…
Read More »LiveMove : Motion recognizer
Here’s a video of AiLive LiveMove, that allows you to train your application to recognize the 3d motion (for the wiimote for example 😉 quickly and simply.
Read More »Wii-mote like for PC / PS3 / 360
This article from Gamasutra talks about a controller made by In2Games, makers of GameTrak : “Named Gametrak Fusion, it uses a patent-pending ultrasonic and RF system to track the motion of a Wii-Mote-style controller, using a small base…
Read More »Wiimote, a first test
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I really like this input method and think it might be useful for symbolic input in VWs.
So today I played in Virtools with the idea of using Natural Point\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s TrackIR as an input device. Of course any 3DOF (it needs only 2DOF) tracker would fit (the Wii-mote for example).
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The 3rd dimension could be used to switch the output characters (uppercase, numerical, punctuation etc).
Read on for more infos about QuickWrite.
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