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gergroy said:

You are basically arguing an apple is better than another apple.  They are both gesture based inputs.  Eye toy at least put you into its creations via augmented reality which obviously a huge precursor to vr.  Also, every vr setup needs a sensor or camera like the eye toy to be able to detect you.  There is definitely more of a connection there then the Wii remote.

The Wiimote actually works in a similar fashion. The controller has a camera hidden behind an IR filter, and that's what's used in conjunction with the sensor bar, which is little more than a reference point of ten IR LEDs to give it its pointing functionality. VR works the same way except in reverse, the camera is the reference point, and the IR LEDs are on the controller.

Also, the Wii remote was not one of the first controllers to combine gesture with physical buttons.  Maybe one of the first to find mainstream success... but that technology had been around for a very long time.  

Name a device that did what the Wii Remote did before the Wii, that wasn't the Eye Toy (which again, had no physical inputs).