Topic: The Wiimote does NOT work like people seem to think...

[wandering]

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Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo
More importantly than anything else in this thread, why in the name of God don't any of the games shown so far have some sort of calibration. Point at middle of screen, click. Point at the four corners of the screen, click each time. Voila, it now knows where on the screen you're pointing. It can't be that hard to do. And that would completely alleviate the need to point at the sensor bar.

I'm pretty sure people needed to point at the sensor bar in some demos only because they were so close to the tv. Farther back, you should be able to just point at the general area of the screen.

[Bloodworth]

I never had to think about where I was actually pointing.  You see where the cursor is and move relative to that, just like a mouse.

[ThePerm]

its worthless arguing with blkpaladin? He was at e3! Or did you not wait in line?

[mantidor]

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth
I never had to think about where I was actually pointing.  You see where the cursor is and move relative to that, just like a mouse.

Yes indeed, I couldnt understand all this talk about pointing to the sensor bar, its a relative positioning system like a mouse, so I didnt understand all this people having problems. Actually a mouse is harder, mapping horizontal planes to vertical planes isnt something humans can do on the fly, we are just already very trained about it.

[BlkPaladin]

Well I guess I was wrong they do use IR, I just hadn't read that article that was cited in the Mailbag. Oh well, I hope they have good life, I will have to get recharables if they use just batteries.

[Jensen]

I use a wireless infrared optical mouse, and it can last a month (months?) on two AAs.   And that is with the IR coming from the mouse, not an external source.  The camera on the mouse might be quite a bit lower resolution, though.

It is the combination of several features that worries me.  The Wiimote feeding power to the nunchuck (or classic controller), rumble, sound, IR camera, at least two accelerometers, 2-way bluetooth comunication.  

[wandering]

...no screen, though.

I'm expecting at least 20 hours. 2 whole Luigi's Mansion playthroughs!

[zakkiel]

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But Radar does measure distance. By taking multilple distance readings over time, a radar gun calculates speed.

No. Radar guns use the Doppler effect. They take no distance readings.

An optical mouse is taking a series of snapshots of the surface right underneath it; very narrow angle and close distance.