{"id":43,"date":"2008-01-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-01-22T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:00:00","slug":"wiimote-and-desktop-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Wiimote and Desktop Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new hero.  His name is <a href=\"http:\/\/johnnylee.net\">Johnny Chung Lee<\/a>.  Johnny Lee is a Ph.D. Graduate Student at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.  This guy is a genius.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has come up with several innovative uses for Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wii_Remote\">Wiimote<\/a>, the device input for the Wii gaming console that utilizes gyroscopic sensor inputs and infrared\/blue-tooth communication.  My favorite article\/video that he put together is called &#8220;Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote.&#8221;  The video speaks for itself.  Seriously cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jd3-eiid-Uw&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Jd3-eiid-Uw&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the projects he has done: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/\">http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~johnny\/projects\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new hero. His name is Johnny Chung Lee. Johnny Lee is a Ph.D. Graduate Student at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. This guy is a genius. Lee has come up with several innovative uses for Nintendo&#8217;s Wiimote, the device input for the Wii gaming console that utilizes gyroscopic sensor inputs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno-geeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}