Wii and games like it can capture motion. But Wii games rarely involve violence and some people want that in a game. I propose that the Wii platform (or similar - Kinect?) simply produce output like that of a game controller. The entire console would be used as the controller for a second video game platform. This would enable some of the fun body motion stuff possible with the capture cameras, joined to edgy games available for more conventional platforms.
-- bungston, Feb 20 2015

Hacking the Nintendo Wii Remote https://www.cs.cmu..../PAPERS/lee2008.pdf
[spidermother, Feb 20 2015]

GlovePIE http://glovepie.org/
Lets you use almost any input device to emulate keyboard / mouse / joysticks etc [mitxela, Feb 21 2015]

The Wii *controllers* can easily be used as controllers for other platforms; they use bluetooth and HID standards.

I don't know about using the //entire console//; what would be the advantage of that? I think the smarts are all in the controllers themselves.
-- spidermother, Feb 20 2015


Look it's spideymother. Wow...it has been awhile.
-- blissmiss, Feb 20 2015


[Bigs] I thought you said an air-rifle keyboard.
-- pocmloc, Feb 21 2015


My ignorance is showing. Maybe the Wii is accelerometer controllers and Kinect is motion capture?
-- bungston, Feb 21 2015



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