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Me on 04 February 2008
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Played_Out said:
Me said:
somewhere i'm sure they'll have the head tracking patented - when they first saw the Head Tracking project do you honestly think Nintendo's reaction was:

1: Wow thats amazing - lets look into that and see if it's plausible
or
2: Bstartds!! now he's blown it - cant believe somebody else his figured it also.

There's probably dozens of components laying dorment in the Wiimote for a dozen different purposes put there purposly just waiting to spring into action when called upon.

At the same time however there's probably a million patents that they registered that will never get used. I'm sure these web jounalist experts will keep guessing but to no avail.


I hate to break it to you, but Nintendo can't patent head-tracking. They didn't develop the technology and it is already available in commercial products for the PC and as a proof-of-concept on the PS3 (and PS2).

Also, your suggestion that there are dozens of components laying dormant in the Wiimote is absolutely ridiculous. Don't you think that some people have taken apart their wiimotes to see what's inside? I can assure you that there are no hidden technologies waiting to "spring into action". On the plus side, if you were to purchase all the components in the wiimote individually at retail price, the cost would be comparable to the retail price of the wii itself. For the average Joe, the cheapest way of getting hold of accelorometers is to buy a wiimote and crack it open.

@ JHawkNH
I think you're confused about how the motion control on the wii works. You cannot use it for head-tracking as it only measures acceleration and direction of movement.

OT: That wiimote accessory has got to be a joke. The design is completely impractical and offers no benefits. The "does nothing" comment is presumably supposed to be the punchline.

 

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/wiiremote/index.htm

 

If you click on the above link you'll see it's an article where CNN have absolutley ridicoulsly taken apart a wiimote to see what's inside.

 

If you click on the lowest chip on the right hand side you'll see it's definition as an audio translator where it says this converts human speech into a Digital data stream and it's unused right now but will probably feature in future games

 

Your assurances mean very little to me