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Sure, you can get a wireless Wii Sensor Bar, but if you think that causes too much latency, but still want a sensor bar that’s a little more travel friendly, Talismoon has your back. The Wii Sensor Wiire is their offering, and it cuts down on not only the length of the cords, but the length of the bar.
The bar is condensed down to a couple sensor blocks one each at the end of a small cord. When you retract the cord, and pack it all in to go, the two sensor blocks stick together, so you could, rather inconspicuously, fit this Wii sensor bar in your pocket.
If you want one, its $24.95 and they are available now. It seems most Wii games are best played with more than one player, so a more travel-friendly spare sensor bar might not be a bad idea.
Talismoon offers up retractable Wii Sensor Wiire [via engadget]
Wireless sensor bar causes too much latency? FUD. Buy whatever works but don’t overpay.
The Wii “sensor bar” doesn’t actually *sense* anything (so there’s no latency involved). It provides two fixed reference points of constant IR to be detected by the real sensor inside the Wii Remote. It doesn’t matter if the source of power for the IR is a battery (wireless) or the Wii (wired). The only thing affecting the latency is the Wii Remote itself.
thanks! i guess you learn something new every day, i really need to get me a Wii
Yeah i have heard about using two candles to use for the sensor bar and it works fine. Bit of a fire hazard though