Transform your Wii Remote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and more…

 

Here’s a cool video showing how inventor Johnny Chung Lee transforms the Nintendo Wii Remote - a $40 game accessory into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and a head mounted virtual reality gear. Johnny is a PhD Graduate student at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University and his project was recently featured on TED.

I needn’t say more… the video speaks for itself. There’s just one word for it - breathtaking.

The software required to make this hack work can be freely downloaded from Johnny’s Projects homepage. And while I was digging up more information on Johnny Lee, I came across one more of his innovations… a foldable interactive display. Here you go…

2 Responses to “Transform your Wii Remote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and more…”

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    On July 15th, 2008 at 4:54 am  |  Permalink
    Entreview.com said:

    Transform your Wii Remote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and more… » Chaos Laboratory…

    Transform your Wii Remote into a digital whiteboard, a multi-touch screen and a VR headset. Free software….

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    On August 2nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm  |  Permalink
    tsgee said:

    COOL!! nice idea on a nifty games console.

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