Flexknowlogy - Jared Stein's ARCHIVED blog - update to jaredstein.org » user interfaces http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org Jared Stein's archived blog on education, technology, culture, and the web Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Wii Sensor for Head Tracking http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/05/15/wii-sensor-for-head-tracking/ http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/05/15/wii-sensor-for-head-tracking/#comments Fri, 16 May 2008 03:54:34 +0000 Jared Stein http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/05/15/wii-sensor-for-head-tracking/ I normally don’t like to just link to other people’s videos, but this blew me away. Though I’ve checked in on some of Mr. Johnny Chung Lee’s cool projects with steadycams and user interfaces with the Wii-mote, to reverse the origination of the signals and use the Wii sensor for head tracking provides some pretty startling results–and remember, the hardware shown is all consumer technology off-the-shelf–Lee wrote the software for the tracking and figured out how to adapt the hardware:

Johnny noted that this would be great for gaming, and it’s true: I imagined the next Metroid game with VR glasses! But I also thought about the impressive educational opportunities, with more engaging simulations of locations and environments.

But that’s a very simple extension; what ideas for education applications can you come up with?

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