Headtracking demo with the Wiimote

Check out this demo of a headtracking system developed by Johnny Chung Lee at Carnegie Mellon University. If implemented, a system like this would be great. I occasionally find myself futilely trying to " duck" out of the way during heated games. This would actually make it effective and much more immersive, especially if you have a large display.

At his website [link=http://www.johnnylee.net]www.johnnylee.net [/link] he' s done several other cool experiments and hacks with the Wiimote.

Thats amazing.

Companies are going to be falling over themselves competing to employ this guy.

Wow. That' s the kind of guy that could take a whole company to the top.
I beg that Nintendo takes his ideas and makes something out of it.
That was just excellent. Simple idea, yet the results are amazing.

Now that is innovation.

Absolutely freaking brilliant. If future Wii FPSs employ that technology, I' ll buy a Wii in a heartbeat.

Ass soon as i read the title i knew it would involve ' swaping' the Sensor bar with the wiimote.

I' m 100% sure Nintendo R&D knew / played about with this as they were researching Wiimote technology.

Currently playing:
Korg DS 10 (ds) /  Metal Slug 7 (ds)
Rhythm Heaven (ds) /  Fire Emblem (ds)
Super Stardust HD (psn) /  Virtua Fighter 5 (360)
FSX (P

Or he could' ve used TrackIR. Still haven' t seen it used like that before. What' s to stop Sony and MS replicating this with their cameras?

Nuffin' .

I doubt they' d go for it though. Something like this complements the Wiimote (Had it been thought of, it should have been included from the get-go in my opinion)

I' m 100% sure Nintendo R&D knew / played about with this as they were researching Wiimote technology.

Yet haven' t bothered to introduce it in any number of their little mini games or even show it off in tech demos.

Yet haven' t bothered to introduce it in any number of their little mini games or even show it off in tech demos.

Yes but Nintendo wouldnt do something half-assed and show of something which essentially effects ' one' player only. This is totally different to the concept of ' Wii' IE ' playing together' , It' ll be stupid for Nintendo to give out mixed impressions.

Currently playing:
Korg DS 10 (ds) /  Metal Slug 7 (ds)
Rhythm Heaven (ds) /  Fire Emblem (ds)
Super Stardust HD (psn) /  Virtua Fighter 5 (360)
FSX (P

Yes but Nintendo wouldnt do something half-assed and show of something which essentially effects ' one' player only. This is totally different to the concept of ' Wii' IE ' playing together' , It' ll be stupid for Nintendo to give out mixed impressions.

Wii-Fit?? I dono about you, but unless it' s Giselle Bundchen up on that platform, I don' t want to be trying to use it two at a time.

As far as them doing something half assed, I think that with a few days, someone could pump out a game as interesting as half the mini games on the wii.

Yes but Nintendo wouldnt do something half-assed

ORIGINAL: Virtua fighter 5



Yes but Nintendo wouldnt do something half-assed and show of something which essentially effects ' one' player only. This is totally different to the concept of ' Wii' IE ' playing together' , It' ll be stupid for Nintendo to give out mixed impressions.

There' s only one thing Nintendo wants: Financial Success.
That means hype->sales->profits.
A product that uses headtracking on the Wii-mote would guarantee hype->sales->profits. Headtracking = success.
If Nintendo had a ready concept they would have showed it ages ago.

This is totally different to the concept of ' Wii' IE ' playing together' , It' ll be stupid for Nintendo to give out mixed impressions.

Why cant the concept of ' Wii' be as much about making good games as playing together?

This seems like a natural development seeing as the hardware is already in place. Nintendo must be kicking themselves for not gettiing this out sooner.

Give me a rainbow six game using this tech! (on a Wii 2, so the game actually looks cool too*)

wouldnt every game made with this set up have to be on rails?

I would work great for time crsis 5 but anything else?...

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

No, why would it have to be on rails? It would work for any type of game. Imagine being able to control the camera with your head.

Imagine being able to control the camera with your head.

You run into intrinsic problems there. Specifically if you don' t have your living room outfitted with walls made entirely of TVs. But it could be used pretty effectively with traditional analog stick technology. I' m thinking along the lines of the ' Tilt Cam' in Metal Gear Solid 3 (Pre-Subsistence), where the camera was more or less fixed above Snake, but you could tilt it to look father in other directions.

Here he goes again.

Currently playing:
Korg DS 10 (ds) /  Metal Slug 7 (ds)
Rhythm Heaven (ds) /  Fire Emblem (ds)
Super Stardust HD (psn) /  Virtua Fighter 5 (360)
FSX (P

Controlling the camera with your head would be good for racing games. Like in GTR you can already get a headtracker which allows you to look around the car and look to the apex of a corner as your turning with the steering wheel. Works really well. And games like PGR would love it.

But the way Johnny Chung Lee uses it to create a holographic TV image, would be no problem to integrate into your bog standard fps with analog stick controlled movement. It' d just be a holographic fps, or h-fps.

Has anyone tried the software at his site?

I wasn' t expecting a lot from the demo he was going to give but the effect really blew me away. Being able to move and look around the screen would be fantastic. I wasn' t expecting the 3D effect either for some reason. He’s a genius.