curl-6 said:
Yeah for the purposes of this exercise, let's assume that the motion tech is the same; I'm pretty sure accelerometers and IR were a thing in 2001. |
Motion controls were cheap already. The 'if' is the little camera in the wii mote that tracks the 'sensor' bar. (Which is just two IR lights, one at each end) Digital cameras were still quite new at the time, The 1024x768 IR camera in the Wii mote does the tracking and outputs the position of detected IR lights.
November 2000 saw the first phone with digital camera
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/j-phone-j-sh04
We consider the J-Phone J-SH04, which was manufactured by Sharp, to be the world's first cellular-enabled camera phone. It featured a 110,000-pixel (0.11 megapixel) CMOS imaging sensor (camera).
It made 352 x 288 resolution (256 color) pictures. It seems unlikely the Wii Mote could have been released in 2001 with sufficient camera resolution for IR tracking capabilities.
Motion tech yep, digital camera tech with onboard image processing, likely not. At least not at an affordable cost.
