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Controlling Virtual Earth and NASA World Wind with a Wiimote

posted by Satri on Wednesday January 16, @07:57AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the swiss-army-remote dept.
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Late last December we learned about the new possibility to use a Wiimote to navigate into Microsoft's Virtual Earth, the same has been done for the open source NASA World Wind. Meaning more ways to navigate the virtual globes out there.

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  • Re: Controlling Virtual Earth and NASA World Wind

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    by Anonymous Voxel on Wednesday January 16, @08:27AM (#2146)
    Well... it's not really the same

    in VE you use wiimote as a controller, moving it with your hands

    in WW the wiimote is not moving, it is used as a head tracking device, it tracks your head which is equipped with a pair of LEDs, it creates some sort of 3D illusion (the whole idea was shown by this guy http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ [cmu.edu])