Monday, January 28, 2008

Beyond The Computer Screen

This is awesome. This guy has hacked a Nintendo Wii to turn it into a head-tracking device; which in turn gives a virtual reality appeal to his computer screen.

Fast forward to the last third of the clip for the good stuff.



I must get a t-shirt printed: God Loves Hackers.

2 comments:

Mark said...

That's pretty amazing. Wonder how long before this technology roles out.

I might invent glasses that make the real world appear like it is on a 2D screen. I'd call them 'retro specs'...mmm, patent pending

Mark said...

for New Scientist subscribers there is an interesting related article in this week's issue:

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19726436.200-games-consoles-reveal-the-supercomputer-within.html