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Back in the olden days, 3D head-tracking required a massive helmet that made you look like a classic Cylon warrior with a severe case of water-retention. Now, Carnegie Mellon University’s Johnny Chung Lee can show you how to hack up your own system using a Nintendo Wii.
“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” Johnny Chung Lee
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2 Responses to “Wii hack creates 3D virtual-reality head tracking system”
The Ides January 9, 2008
*Yawn* Did you guys seriously just find this? Its been on the web at least a few weeks.
-2Chris Davies January 10, 2008
[quote comment="34951"]*Yawn* Did you guys seriously just find this? Its been on the web at least a few weeks.[/quote]
Actually, it’s the first time I’ve seen it, yes – though I have had my head buried in Android over at Google-Phone.com!
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