Topic: Apparently the Guncon 4 is more accurate than the Wii remote LULZ

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: ThePerm

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
You could get around it in programming by simply telling the game what size TV you have.

Smash bros beat me to it, just putthe sensor inthe middle, tell the game how big the tv is then all it has to do  is virtually simulate extra points

You STILL have the problem of when the wiimote or IR camera can't see the sensor bar. Who cares if the screen is so big if the wiimote can't see the sensor bar to orient itself when pointing at the corner?

[UltimatePartyBear]

You just sit too close for the size TV you have, Kairon.  I once did the math based on Nintendo's early claims of 100" screens and 5 m range, and if I remember it right, I came up with a field of view of about 30 degrees.

[Kairon]

I have no choice... I'm in a dorm room! lol.

[Spak-Spang]

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Originally posted by: Kairon
I have no choice... I'm in a dorm room! lol.

Well you can drop out of college.  

[Dirk Temporo]

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Originally posted by: Lord_die_seis
The PlayStation 3 will be able to recognize the tilt of the Guncon 3, its distance from the monitor, and these things cannot be done with the Wii system.

YEAH THE WII REMOTE SURE CAN'T DO THAT, CAN IT GUYS?

What is this guy on?

[DAaaMan64]

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo

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Originally posted by: Lord_die_seis
The PlayStation 3 will be able to recognize the tilt of the Guncon 3, its distance from the monitor, and these things cannot be done with the Wii system.

YEAH THE WII REMOTE SURE CAN'T DO THAT, CAN IT GUYS?

What is this guy on?

LOL, wow thats pretty bad. Send this guy a kick in the balls for christmas.

[EasyCure]

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Originally posted by: Spak-Spang

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Originally posted by: Kairon
I have no choice... I'm in a dorm room! lol.

Well you can drop out of college.

he has a point. a Wii Degree is much more important

[Smash_Brother]

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Originally posted by: Kairon
But the limitation is whether the IR camera in the Wiimote or otherwise can see the IR emitters. If the emitters aren't in the field of view of the camera, the entire scheme breaks down. The wiimote, for example, has a relatively small window of vision when just 4 feet away from the TV in my dorm room, preventing me from using Ghost Squad's calibration option because I'm just not far enough to see the IR signals when I'm pointing at some of my TV's corners.

While that's true, you're not supposed to be that close to the TV because it's bad for your eyes...

[KDR_11k]

PC monitors have a suggested distance of 1m.

[Ceric]

Ideally the more unique points of reference you have the better.  I'm sure you could up the accuracy and useable range of the Wiimote if say you have a different frequency IR Emitter at each corner of you screen.  Effectively giving it a bounded box.

A good way of thinking about this is to look at your TV.  Now look at the Wiimote bar.  Imagine that the room just went dark, you can actually see the light emitted from the sensor bar, and you where trying to define the shape of the TV from just those two points of light.  Hard isn't it.  Now lets say that instead of the 2 sensor bar lights that instead you have 4 points emitting light.  One for each corner.  It's now much easier to define the TV's shape and dimension.  Imagine that the lights suddenly went dark again but you could only see 2 of those points of light and someone asks you what edge that those two points represent.  It be hard to know with just that information.  If say instead each of the light points had its own unique color, you could now for a fact that those points you see represent to top edge of the TV.

Thats how I think it could be improved.