frickin cool

sotark

This is really really cool.

Neverhitboxes

If this is in fact real, and not some "'shopped!" video, it is very impressive!

zenpoet

cool.. :D

wonder if there is other cool stuff you can make with that build in IRcam.. anyone know what app you need to interface it?

D_Zarster

What if I said I saw his...point?

strider_mt2k

@BurkePrefect:
Google will do it.

Rob C

@strider_mt2k: Yes.

Gormania

Captain Planet FTW.

themightykorean

Someone that's NOT microsoft needs to give this man a job!

BurkePrefect

Wow, I think that's creative. Nice job. I mean most of us already knew you could do something like this but the implementation is so simple.

Usama

Would I be overstepping my bounds if I said that it appears his reach has exceeded his grasp?

strider_mt2k

i can see some people making gloves with IR LEDs on the fingertips and putting up flash based games on WiiCade that would support the gloves

nes3

@Trowble:

Ummmm ... what? Who cares?

dead_red_eyes

that really is cool, i wonder what games would be like if you tried doing that, or would that even work because you can't use the buttons?

kickace

Wow, this guy is the man!

dead_red_eyes

He get's an A for this project. His speech was well written. He didn't have to resort to looking at his notes (while on camera) and the demonstration was nifty. Only problem is that he said "ummm" a couple of times.

Trowble

I'm pretty sure there are those scientists spending possibly millions of dollars trying to come up with something like that using "super cool ultra modern hyper technology" that'd probably cost waaaaay to much for an average consumer, but this short video clip shows that just some bright inspiration is enough to trump all those millions of dollars + scientists with phd degrees.

saych

If anyone wants to experiment with this technology check out the NUI Group, they have a large community of individuals working on multi-touch interaction. If you have some programming abilities they have a tutorial on the front page to use VVVV, a software package/ programming language. It is really simple and requires little if any real programming background. They also have tutorials on how to build your own tables or other rigs. Oh, and its all free of course.

Y1n_X1

@BurkePrefect: It's true, microsoft has this exact tech working with a webcam in the microsoft vistor center. It works exactly like the grid in this video but with maps.

Weazul

Fun fun. Now someone needs to develop a UI that'd actually work well with this sort've stuff AND look cool.

Reilao

@dead_red_eyes: To me it sounded like a well prepared or extemporaneous speech and he did a good job of it, so I decided to grade him even on the tiny details.

Trowble

normalize the audio before you host a video? yes, yes you should

CooperMaybe

i wonder why he never thought to take some thin gloves and put the reflective tape on the ends of the fingers on teh glove.

myneid

@saych: That's pretty much how I feel. Post-docs seem to come up with some cool stuff, but nothing that's really practical, usable, or affordable in a real life setting.

Petezah

If there were ever a need to mod the powerglove, this is it.

luckypictures

This is just like what was imagined in Minority Report. AWESOME.

Music-Lawyer

when you think about it, everything he did was very easy to do and elementary. i need to stop being so lazy and start hacking shit around my house again.

ajadoniz

Now all I need is glass based memory , and my Minority Report fan movie is complete.

Mecharine

@saych:

Agreed. This also seems fairly patentable... I wonder if he has investigated whether or not this has already been done.

If it hasn't already been patented, then I suppose it never will be, and we'll see it in products soon.

Really great idea and very simple implementation. I like.

Keebler

thats soo cool, if i knew a computer program to try this out on, and how to hook up my wiimote to my computer i would soo try this out!

flynboarder07

The possible applications for this are endless. Think about it, iPod touch/iPhone style interface for your television. For viewing pictures and such. Probably a MUCH cheaper alternative to the Microsoft interactive coffee table. I hope this dude sees something good out of this. Well frickin' done my man.

Amazing_Steve

Be very afraid. It's only a matter of time before someone tries using all their body appendages.

Vagabum

Great video and presentation, except the sound.

So, take this and the Wii for MythTV project and you can just sit back on your couch and control your TV without a remote.

The question I have is, what keeps the Wii remote from going to sleep?

LoganSix

lol his fingers are made of skin...

Applerain

My fingers are just like his, they don't emit UV light :(

marcus_ivo

The remote was upside down for one take. When he closed one finger, the wrong light went away on the screen.

Reilao

@Reilao: The x-axis is inverted because the Wiimote is facing the user and hence sending inverted x-coordinates. Probably easy to fix, but I noticed the same thing

auroragb

@strider_mt2k: I wouldn't say you'd be stepping over your bounds.

It appeared to me during his intro speech that he had only a basic understanding of the Wii remote's functionality. He appears to have understood basic IR theory and Bluetooth connectivity, but as soon as he said that the IR receiver in the front of the Wii remote was a camera, I shook my head. In hi sdefense though, if this is in fact not a fake, then he is nobody's fool, and he has done more than I could. lol

annex1

@annex1: But it is a camera.

mattcoz

I want interactive google maps from my couch!

toyotaboy

minority wiiport. just wanted to say that. thanks.

sublimnl

@annex1: But it -is- a camera, just tuned more for IR. If you take off that cover, it'd work like a camera. You can actually mod webcams to do IR work like that.

Reilao

Give this guy the Nobel Prize!

avgbear

Reference: Wii Remote Functionality

Zagrophyte

@annex1: The Wii "Sensor Bar" is just two Infrared LEDs in a fancy case. All the "sensing" takes place in the "remote".

The Wiimote does not emit any IR, the sensor bar does.

Zagrophyte