07/09/09

wiiRemoteuseR! 2009 Focus MultimediaLandon Jensen (lsjensen@micron.com)

Vatsal Shah (vshah@purdue.edu)

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Nintendo Wii?

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http://www.nintendo.com/wii/what/meetwii

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Wii Remote from Nintendo

A main feature of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via movement and pointing through the use of accelerometer and optical sensor technology. Bluetooth connectionExtensions… homebRew

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Remote

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Previous Work: Wii+Matlab = WiiLAB

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http://netscale.cse.nd.edu/twiki/bin/view/Edu/WiiMote

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Wii + R: Technical Details

CombineVisual C# 2008 Studio ExpressR (via statconnDCOM)Wii Remote (via WiimoteLib)

Wii Remote sensor data captured by event/polling and sent to R for graphics

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WiiRemote

C# RWiimoteLib statconnDCOM

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Technical Details (code snippets)

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Technical Details (code snippets, cont)

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Let's have some fun

Use WiiRemote to create/interact with data (1D, 2D, 3D, and beyond)Possible applications?

Enhance learning experienceCheck out these simple games…

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Live Demo #1

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1D SPC/R2R game DEMO1

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Live Demo #2

2D SPC/R2R game

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DEMO2

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Live Demo #3

3D scatterplot via rgl or with ggobi

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DEMO3

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Other games…

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VarianceCovarianceMatrix

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Special thanks...

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Johnny Chung Lee for his cool Wii Project ideasBrian Peek for his WiimoteLib librariesJason Smith for Wiimote PresentorGreat packages: rgl, iplotsMicron Technology, Inc and Purdue University for

sponsoring our travels