Robs Usability Development : Silverlight, ASP.NET, Ajax, Agile, MVC & Volta

After seeing the briljant wiimote implementations of Johny Chung Lee I had no doubt whatever that a lot of other projects would follow. And indeed everyone has started cooking with the WiiMote and the Coding4Fun .Net libraries.

Recepy 1: Tumbling horse

• 40kg Spring horse
• 1 WiiMote
• 1kg Need 4 Speed

http://wiimotehorse.tumblr.com/

Recepy 2: Project Maestro

• 1 WiiMote
• 100kg WPF
• 20kg LCD Scherm
• 2 WiiNority Gloves

http://labs.cynergysystems.com/Silverlight.html

Recepy 3: Lasergame

• 2 Wireless sensor bars or candles !?!
• 2 Wiimotes
• 1 room with places to hide

http://www.wiili.org/forum/wiimote-laser-tag-t1196-s7.html

Recepy 4: XNA Studio
• 360kg XNA Studio
• 1 BallRace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8raY6RwtU

Conclusion

I think these are not the last “out of the box” implementations that we will see. The next few months will tell, and i’m realy looking forward to it.

Enjoy the rest if your weekend!

Robertjan Tuit

update 5-1-2008 13:36: Cynergy Labs: Project Maestro

Sometimes i am so inspired by things i read, see or hear, that i am not quite sure how to act on them. But i’m glad that have my Blog these days to at least share it with you all.

That we can connect our wiimote to our pc is not new, but what this guy is doing with it is realy refreshing and inspiring.

The principle behind a wiimote is a camera inside the wiimote that registers the 2 light sources inside you sensor bar on top of your tv. Bu what if you swap them: You place the wiimote on top or at the bottom of you tv and you move the light sources around, the applications are very endless. For example when you use a pair of glasses with 2 lights on eather side.

Especially his 3D viewport implementation is inspiring and the other makes the input devices from Minority Report science fact instead of function!

Everything is available as c# source code, i can’t wait to get them to work on my own laptop!

Link : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

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