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Asus Release a Wiimote-Alike

Posted by timothy on from the sincerest-form dept.

arcticstoat writes "After attracting lots of media attention with the Eee PC, Asus has now turned its hand to producing a motion-sensitive controller like the Wiimote, called the Eee Stick. Looking unashamedly like a copy of a Wiimote and Nunchuk setup, the Eee Stick has two components — one with an analogue joystick, and one with a digital control pad — and both sticks have a rumble feature. The Eee Stick is currently planned to be bundled with various models of the Eee PC and Eee Box, but Asus says it can also theoretically work with any PC."

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  1. Analogue and rumble? by archammer2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't Nintendo just lose a law suit because they had controllers with analogue sticks and rumbling?

  2. I wonder if you can do the same things... by moose_hp · · Score: 2, Informative

    that you can do with the wiimote like head tracking:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

    low cost interactive whiteboard:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

    Finger tracking (ala minority report)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU

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    DON'T PANIC.
  3. Re:The flaws I see... by merreborn · · Score: 2, Informative

    But the motion sensors by themselves are not the wiimote's main feature; the pointer is, which requires the sensor bar.

    To take that a little further:
    The accelerometers in the Wiimote SUCK -- hence this new "MotionPlus" attachment they've got in the pipline. They're so bad, they're frequently an impediment to gameplay -- e.g., Wii Golf is pretty much unplayable, 'cause the accelerometers can't detect putts reliably.