Here’s the second installment in the series of videos I’ve been uploading recently on using the Nintendo Wii and Python to provide intuitive means of controlling applications on Ubuntu.
I plan to demonstrate this and much more at PyCon India, 2010, if my proposal is accepted. The Nintendo Wii has an IR Camera built into it with a really powerful on board controller (an SOC) that basically does a lot of hard work to present simplified coordinate based tracking. Each controller can track up to four points in two dimensional space (there is an element of depth as well, but more on that later).
Using the “CWiiD” Project, an open source interface for the Wii remote on Linux, I have developed a small “sandbox” application that allows you to manipulate an object using my hands, as opposed to the traditional forms of control viz. the mouse and keyboard. What’s even more impressive is that the entire hardware will cost only under $50. This provides almost limitless possibilities for the amount of intuitiveness that we can add to an application.
Currently, there is no device driver in place, but with a little help from the open source community and a little “rocket science” (basically a library for recognizing commonly used gestures), we can change the way we interact with our PCs forever.
Here is the video. Hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it! Cheers to PyCon 2010.
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