Wii Remote and World Wind Java

Fabrizio Giudici, a World Wind Java early adopter, reports yet again a Wii remote related demo involving the NASA SDK. The project called Montenav demonstrated by Gianpaolo Melis at the JUG Genova uses the Nintendo hardware to control the WW globe using gestures.

Interfaccia multimodale per WorldWind from Paolo Predonzani on Vimeo.

In the above video the red and green dots are the two hands being tracked simultaneously. Gianpaolo Melis used IR leds attached to his hands to communicate his gestures to a fixed Wii remote.

For more details see Fabrizio Giudici web log.

Last January i reported another project involving Wiimotes and World Wind - the .net version. Recently, j_c_maglio, a WWJ forum member mentioned working on a related project.

Control WorldWind by moving your head around

Following in the steps of Johnny Chung Lee from Carnegie Mellon University, WorldWind developer Nigel Tzeng from the John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, made a very nice demo of a 'desktop virtual reality display' for WorldWind .Net - using a Wii remote:




See this WorldWind forum thread for discussion, and Johnny Lee Wiimote Desktop VR faq on his blog.