Computer Science Seminar Series
Nintendo Wii Remote Applications on the PC
3:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Weir Hall, Room 235
Chad Vicknair
Graduate Student
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Mississippi
Abstract:
In the past several generations of video game consoles, few devices have
gained such a reputation for raw potential as the Nintendo Wii Remote. The
Wii Remote communicates via Bluetooth with the Wii and can, thus, easily
communicate with the PC and with other Bluetooth devices. Several programs
exist that utilize the Wii Remote as a mechanism for controlling a PC. This
affords the Wii Remote a great deal of versatility as a generic input device
for the PC, with functionality ranging from the Apple Remote to a controller
for PC games and beyond.
Among the most ambitious endeavors to emerge from this flood of user-created
content is a desktop virtual reality system that uses the Wii Remote and a
pair of specially designed glasses to implement head tracking on a PC.
This seminar will be a presentation of some of the Wii Remote applications.
It will include a demonstration of some of the more interesting
implementations of the Wii Remote as a standard input device. There will
also be a demonstration and discussion of the head-tracking software.
Finally, as time permits, the audience will be allowed to do hands-on
testing of the different software.