Johnny Chung Lee – Cool Wii Remote Projects
The other day Penny Arcade posted a link to a video by this Johnny Chung Lee guy demonstrating some pretty cool things the Wii remote can do when it’s cleverly used. He has a small handful of such videos on his Wii remote projects page, all of which are worth watching. But out of all of them, this one is the one I would like to see used the most.
This Lee person is apparently a jack of all trades, as they say. He’s also a pretty decent photographer, he invented the $14 stedycam (a device that usually costs as much as the camera its attached too), and built a slingshot capable of shotting paint balloons 180 feet in the air, among other things. This guy is pretty pro at wasting time.
Yeah this is a pretty cool video. There are some games that use this type of technology, there’s a piece of hardware called TrackIR http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/ which does all the things he was showing, AND MORE. Of course it’s also quite expensive. I was just looking at it last night on that Armed Assault guide I was talking about. It’s pretty neat stuff.
That was an awesome demonstration. So, have you already downloaded the software?