PS3 and Guncon3: Accuracy better than Wiimote?

[Grey Acumen]

Okay, for those people who think the wiimote can only figure out the tilt and foward/backward motion via motion sensing.

You're wrong.

Try this quick little experiment and see for yourself.

turn on your Wii. Turn on your Wiimote. Put the Wiimote on the arm of a chair or something similar, with it pointing at teh TV so you can see the selector hand on the wii's Main selection menu.
Now, carefully pick up the sensor bar, and tilt that, and watch the hand while you do so. you will see the hand tilt. the wiimote will not have changed it's orientation to the earth, therefor, the tilt is being calculated via the camera.

The one thing that might confuse people is that if you tilt the sensor bar far enough, the selection hand will disappear. which means that in the case of the Wii menu, the tilt is being calculated through BOTH the sensor bar and also using the motion sensors on the wiimote to verify the tilt, if they are too far apart, the Wiimote will assume something is wrong and stop displaying the selection hand.

However, this still means that tilt is being figured out through the camera initially, otherwise the hand would not tilt no matter what position the sensor bar was in.

With this experiment confirming that the Wii uses the camera to calculate cursor position, we can then realize how distance can be calculated using the Wiimote. Using two points of reference(the two ir leds) with a fixed position between them, it is possible to calculate the distance from those points the Wiimote is by calculating the perceived distance between them.
If we play LoZ:TP and bother going into the calibration screen, we can find out that, indeed, the size of the target will grow and shrink as you bring the wiimote further away and closer to the sensor bar, confirming this theory to be true.

Since only two points of reference are needed, there is absolutely no reason why having SIX points of reference would make calculations more accurate.


Therefor, My first impression is to consider this whole article a load of WHOOIE.