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…
COOL!! nice idea on a nifty games console.
I’ve seen this video over Youtube in the past months and I’d have to say this is one of the innovative extensions to the existing technology of the Wiimote.