Motion Control

Geek Out

3D Time-Lapse Is A Beautiful Love-Letter

4:20AM November 10, 2011 | Brent Rose

This video, called “Deus Ex Homine”, is a stereoscopic 3D motion-controlled time-lapse by artist Peter H. Chang. It features some stunning footage of the San Francisco Bay Area and is immersive enough to make me supremely home-sick. More »


Entertainment

Motion-Controlled Remotes Are A Stupid Idea

6:40AM September 10, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Movea thinks it has a good idea. It thinks the Move TV remote, which uses Wii-like gestures to flip through channels, is something that should be in our lives. It’s not. The Move TV is a premise beyond idiocy. More »


Gaming

Razer Motion Controller Looks Awesome Paired With Portal 2

6:37AM April 22, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Razer’s Hydra PC gaming controller is taking the guts from two Wiimotes and packing them into the form factor of its nunchuck accessory. They say it’s the first “gaming-grade” motion controller. More »


Science

How Wii And Kinect Hack Your Emotions

11:40AM November 17, 2010 | Charles Q. Choi - Wired

Nintendo’s Wii game console may owe some of its extraordinary success to emotions that are triggered by specific movements: It might essentially be using your body to hack into your brain. More »


Gaming

Sony PlayStation Move Cannot Kill Dracula

6:00AM August 16, 2010 | Jack Loftus

As the Wii has shown, motion gaming means additional safety instructions and demos will accompany consoles as they ship to consumers, as will humorous Photoshops lampooning their kid glove nature. Kinect and PlayStation Move are no exception. [Androsko via Kotaku]


Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots Reborn As Motion-Controlled Design Challenge

2:00AM August 9, 2010 | Jack Loftus

How does one breathe new life into a retrolicious toy like Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots? In this day and age, it’s a motion-control setup from Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh that they created for the TI Design Challenge. More »


Gaming

Kinect Will Read Sign Language, Paving Way For New Input Methods

1:20AM August 7, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It’s not just your clumsy leg-kicks that Kinect will understand, with a newly discovered patent showing that it’s actually capable of understanding American Sign Language, or ASL. Is this another way to input text to the game? More »


Gaming

Practise Abstinence With This $US434,000 Motion-Controlled Video Game

1:30AM August 1, 2010 | Casey Chan

The University of Central Florida has developed a full-body, motion-control video game that promotes abstinence. It lets tween girls control avatars that are placed in social situations that may lead to making out and, gasp, sex. More »


Gaming

Why Kinect Should Really Come With Sunglasses

6:00AM July 2, 2010 | Mark Wilson

They had me at, “Good morning, Batman.” So much so, in fact, that I didn’t bother reading the rest of this comic (which I assume is an earnest plug for the future of everything as we know it). [Reddit]


Gaming

The Evolution Of The Controller

1:20AM July 1, 2010 | Mark Wilson

I know that I’m supposed to snicker at the human doing the crane as if he’s a less organic entity than, say, the perfectly normal DualShock – a controller that dropped from a tree like an acorn. [Extralife via Kotaku]