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Cellphone as Virtual Mouse, Keyboard

Communications · 2004-05-27 08:08 · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the well-isn't-that-clever dept. · 186 comments

stab writes "Check this out! High Energy Magic have announced a public beta of software to let you use your camera-phone as a physical mouse by just pointing and clicking and rotating it in the air. Some very cool videos available: check out the volume control and flight booking ones in particular! The tags used are really robust - they did a wastebasket torture test for a bit of fun as well :-)"
id Software Announces Development Of Doom III

Games · Games · 2000-06-01 02:04 · posted by emmett · from the no-one-cares-about-my-plan-file dept. · 381 comments

Stab writes: "John Carmack updated his .plan file with the startling news that id has had a bit of political infighting recently. In response to an ultimatum laid down to Kevin and Adrian regarding starting a new DOOM sequel, they fired Paul Steed! Read the full story in JC's .plan update." The important news here is that they're working on Doom III, but the decision to do so was a rough one for the company, not the developers. Note to Kevin and Adrian: Firing developers out of spite ain't cool.