Wii ‘Minority Report’ Interface

Sorry for the late post!

Anyway, here is a little YouTube video about a guy, Johnny Chung Lee from Carnegie Mellon, who MacGyvered a Minority Report point-based interface system with a Wii Remote (I have got to get me a Wii Remote – it works with Flash ;^) ).

Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote

By the same guy is a video about how he has made a projector-based tracking technique. It greatly decreases the complexity and cost of having this functionality in an application. He uses his system to track the position of a touch-sensitive pad which he writes on (the words, through, are projected onto it), as well as tracking a laptop to have it display information based on its position (acting like a magnifying lens in this example). This is similar to the video clip we saw in Scott’s talk last week (with the cute little frog being rendered to the user based on its relative position) but without the VR headset.

Moveable Projected Displays using Projector Based Tracking

Hope they inspire you :^)

EDIT:

This guy is awesome. Here he shows how to create an interactive whiteboard – all due to the Wii Remote and using a IR pen.

Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote

And how to project on cool things like scrolls and umbrellas (“simulate displays on flexible and foldable surfaces”):

Foldable Displays (tracked with the Wiimote)

And coooooooolest of all: creating a head-tracking display with a Wii Remote. Easy and cheap head-tracking displays for all!

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

That is just so freakin’ awesome :^)

You can get instructions and code at Johnny Chung Lee’s website, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/