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Taking the Wii Controller to the Next Level

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

funfail writes "It's a Wii without the $250 console. It's virtual Pong and so much more. Any object is now an input device, even your fingers. Camspace is a pure software solution that allows nearly any ordinary PC webcam (95% are supported) to track up to four objects — even as small as 5mm — in real-time and with very high accuracy and reliability (Windows only). Techcrunch has an in-depth article and a video." Very neat idea, but it appears that it is in a limited beta only, and source doesn't appear likely.

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  1. Its Multitouch for the masses! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    set one of these up pointing at your computer screen... and have it track your fingers.

    1. Re:Its Multitouch for the masses! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What? Multitouch without lining the pockets of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Blasphemer! Communist! Why, that's downright un-American! Put him in Gitmo! ;)

      The question is: okay, so we know it will be free as in beer, and that they will have Windows first, then Mac and Linux later. But what about free as in speech? This is all in software -- so will they be releasing this under an open source license? And if not, why?

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    2. Re:Its Multitouch for the masses! by gyepi · · Score: 5, Interesting

      This should be combined with the head-tracking solution by Johnny Chung Lee (your head is the object which is recognized) - low cost 3D first person shooters!

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  2. Re:WIndows Only by stormguard2099 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    they say osx support and linux support are in the works to follow pretty soon right there on the website

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  3. Oh stop whining by msaver · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CmdrTaco wasn't whining that the source isn't available, but he seemed disappointed the code won't be freely available. He wasn't accusing the author of immoral licensing practices.

    And why shouldn't he be disappointed? it'd be fun to play with.

    My first thought was "neat... can I play with this code?" and I'm sure my reaction wasn't unique.

  4. Re:Nice tech, but latency? by pherthyl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah the video is hard to believe. I've done lots of work with image processing using webcams and they're usually pretty crap. You can get 30fps max, and then usually only at 320x240. If the lighting conditions aren't good, your framerate will drop (or everything goes unusably dark if you disable the automatic aperture adjustment).

    They show some latency, but overall the motion is incredibly smooth. Based on my experience that's impossible, but I'd love to be proven wrong. Gotta try that out.