Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment. The display properly reacts to head and body movement as if it were a real window creating a realistic illusion of depth and space. By Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. For more information and software visit johnnylee.net

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Projecting Virtual Reality with a Microvision SHOWWX

Projected virtual reality first person shooter, using a Microvision SHOWWX as the display method, a PNI SpacePoint Fusion for aiming, and a Wii Remote and Nunchuk for moving and shooting. The software is a hacked version of Cube, with libhid interfacing the SpacePoint and CWiid interfacing the Wiimote. A writeup and source code are on my blog: eclecti.cc

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