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Johnny Lee finally gets some respect
NihonTiger90 \| 10:08 PM on 10.11.2008	5 comments

I'm not sure how many of you remember Johnny Lee and his awesome Wiimote ideas from YouTube, but they were plenty cool. One of my favorites was the headtracking application he devised, using the Wii remote's infrared camera while moving the sensor bar to simulate 1:1 movement in real space.

Well, Nintendo may not have taken notice... but the Tokyo Game Show folks sure did.

According to Wired's Game|Life blog, Mr. Lee's head-tracking program was at the museum of game science exhibit that was set up at TGS. Featuring a Wii sensor bar attached to a hardhat, the brief little program was apparently not working as planned at first, and according to Chris Kohler, "people couldn't actually figure out how to play it."

Still, it's great to see this at TGS, and who knows? Maybe some of the third-party devs there (Nintendo no-showed, after all) will take a little inspiration from this and start thinking even further outside the box with the Wii. You never know.

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5 comments | showing # 1 to 5

eternalplayer2345

pedrovay2003

I really wish they left his head tracking stuff in Boom Blox. It seemed like the concept was already there, so I don't know why they cut it.

Butmac

More proof that Asians and Nintendo go together like ASIANS AND NINTENDO!!!!!!1

king3vbo

Respek Nuckles pretty much nails it

Dexter345

Awesome.

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Oh, hi there. Didn�t see you enter. Anyways, welcome to my humble little blog. For those of you not familiar with who I am, the name�s Brian. I�m 23 years old and hail from Lorain, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. I work at the local newspaper here as a copy editor, putting my four long years of college to actual use. Kind of. I think.

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