Work your Wiimote with your fingertips
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Nov 11th 2007 12:48AM
posted Nov 11th 2007 12:48AM
[Via Hackaday]
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Yay! A sensor bar "hack" that's as useless as mine!
Seriously, though. Pretty sweet, dude.
Oh, you meant MINUS 3:09.
Have a look at his other videos...he's a genius
at 3:09 he says "doo doo" :)
No, he doesn't.
But this is rather clever. :D
He does say "doo doo". Either at 3:09 or 0:58.
I can hear it at :58, but not at 3:09. :S
Oh, you meant MINUS 3:09
AlexP, it was just a stupid, admittedly childish, and unfunny remark that I made. Please let it die.
even seeing that doesn't make me want a wii. Fanboys don't kill me lmao. Honestly the only reasons you have for liking the wii are Zelda, Mario, and a useless finger hack.
You forgot about Metroid Prime Corruption, Smash Brothers Brawl, Wii Fitness, Bomberman Land, Animal Crossing, Super Monkey Ball, and Zack and Wiki.
Sorry but I'm a hardcore gamer, not a 9 year old.
As if the only reason to get a wiimote was to use it with the Wii.
That's a mouse, baby. A sweet, 3d, wireless mouse. Can you say 'blender'?
"Sorry but I'm a hardcore gamer, not a 9 year old."
If you really were a hardcore gamer wouldn't you be interested in playing ALL video games, not just the ones people told you were "hardcore"? Somehow I don't think your self-proclaimed title carries much weight when you don't consider an entire portion of the video-game market interesting simply because you're worried what people will think of your maturity if you played it. Pretty funny.
"Sorry but I'm a hardcore gamer, not a 9 year old."
So when was your 10th birthday?
I think that would be pretty badass if you were playing a game that didn't require the attackment - you could work the buttons with one hand, and use your index finger on the other hand. For RE4, screw a gun attachment, you just make a "hand-gun"
He is right about one thing waving your hands around does get kind of tiring, pretty much like playing the wii, lol thats why ill stick to my other game consoles. can anyone say GIMICK,
P.S. the ps2 had the eye toy way back that did the same thing without reflective tape tided to your fingers.
It actually requires minimum effort if do it correctly. From my experience with Wii Sports quick motions were better than smashing the skull of the person next to you.
What I want to see is a nice Image editing program using this on the PC. I am thinking a clear glass top and you put on a set of "gloves" with reflectors on the two index fingers. Under the glass top is your IR array and Wii Remote (if I understand this correctly you do NOT need a WII just a wii remote ??)
This would make a sweet photoshop plug in or something like that.
You'll see this with the GIMP long before you see it with photoshop. I prefer the GIMP anyway, but I'm kind of a Free purist. Beauty is, you have the code, so even if no one else likes the idea, no one can stop you from adding it yourself.
I'll tape it to my wee-wee and make wii act all weeierd.
and how old are u..... Remember 5 year olds should be on gadget forums. just jokin.
correction shouldn't
How on earth is that highly ranked???
STARCRAFT!
pretty useless, but still cool
www.ares04.com
Holy cow. That's multi-touch for all of us!!!
So it's a "powerful" light source pointing directly at your eyes, but the iris can't close to protect the eye because the light is invisible. Is it safe?
Even though the intensity has increased, infrared light is lower energy (longer wavelength) than visible light.
But will it play...well..no.
I use 3M High Intensity Reflective Tape which my company buys from www.ReflectivelyYours.com
this means anyone can control my wii with their fingers
haha, thats a pretty sick hack. not gunna lie.
It looks entirely useless. Especially because the cursor moves in the opposite direction to your finger.
"The hack won't work very well with your Wii -- can't press dem buttons! -- so it's limited to gimmicky Minority Report -style demos on your PC." Well pressing the buttons could work. I've seen several mods for wireless controllers. This is just supposition but if you could find a way to modify the wireless controller and incorporate the materials into lest say a glove, then maybe you've got something.
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Man i'm having a geek moment. The technology actually exist that something similar to minority report screen can be created, with consumer products mind you.
I've wanting to build a unit for a while, but lack of funds prevented me from doing so.
Man if some where to build a free space unit http://www.eyeliner3d.com/aboutus.html (they just provide the reflective sheet,for the effect you can just buy the glass from local retailer)
develop the software for PC or Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaYmXLIPVSc&eurl=http://wiiflash.bytearray.org/?p=53
(Read their documentation and develop your own)
and
Modify the principles of the finger tracking into
a decent glove.
Then You've got a really decent System on your hands
(Imagine the possibilities for 3d modelers)
but will it blend?
Easy to press buttons... just assign a finger to a button... flex the finger momentarily to make the dot "blink"... add that to control scheme.