More multitouch – Wii-based whiteboard!

Posted by joelgibby on March 9, 2008 · View Comments 

Update: Johnny’s website has moved. The new site is here:http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Came across Johnny Lee’s work on using the Wiimote as a low-cost IR camera for interacting with displays. He’s got a couple of really neat applications demo’d on his site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

The one that really caught my eye was one that could turn any surface into a multitouch display interface using only a Wiimote and a projecter or LCD panel. Check it out:

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Multitouch “Zero Interface” Computing

Posted by joelgibby on January 27, 2008 · View Comments 

Here’s something I completely missed, probably because it was eclipsed by the rabid praise of the iPhone and manufactured hype of MS Surface:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSk

It would be nice to see real innovation be rewarded and reported rather than advertising dollars deflect our attention.Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places.

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