Finally got a frickin' Wii
I struck gold at EB finally - I got up at 4:30 am today. I hit up walmart first but they only had 1 Wiimote which someone else snapped up. EB only had 3 Wii units and I was second in line. They also had 4 PS3's surprisingly (the 20 gig variety) which is weird because it's supposed to be much harder to find. I felt bad for the 25+ people who lined up for the Wii (no doubt I stole some 12 year old's christmas present). There were only 6 people in line for the PS3.
Haven't had too much time to play with it yet - I have relatives over. I did notice that the two windows I have next to my TV seem to be messing with the Wiimote :/ maybe I can adjust the sensitivity. I'll try to take some IR pictures of the sensor bar soon too. Maybe we can get some insight into how it works.
Haven't had too much time to play with it yet - I have relatives over. I did notice that the two windows I have next to my TV seem to be messing with the Wiimote :/ maybe I can adjust the sensitivity. I'll try to take some IR pictures of the sensor bar soon too. Maybe we can get some insight into how it works.
posted by David Wallin at 6:46 AM
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The sensor bar is literally just a few IR LEDs. I think the remotes have a camera used to figure out triangulation/position.
http://doctabu.livejournal.com/64758.html
The things you can do with IR LEDs and a camera!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's whats going on. The wii has a configuration screen where you can adjust the sensitvity, and it shows you dots where it is detecting IR.
I still wonder how the controller can detect it's own orientation when it's not pointing at the sensor bar. Is it all just motion sensing?
oh and turning down the sensitivity was enough to compensate for the open windows.. it works fine during the day now as long as you aren't too far from the screen.
Cool, congrats with your new toy :P
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