Dean Takahashi Smells A Wiimote Mystery
Dean Takahashi, who uncloaked the mysteries of Xbox 360, now casts his investigative eye on Nintendo’s Wii. Apparently, the Kitty Kelley of consoles has been wondering about the Wii game console’s innovative controller. According to him:
I haven’t heard the answer to so far is what does the optical sensor do? Does anyone know? I suppose it tells the console that someone is standing in front of the TV and pointing something at the screen. But can’t the rest of the sensors do that?”
He knows the Wii remote control‘s built-in motion sensors provide interesting new kinds of gameplay where the controller extends your body. If you’re playing virtual tennis, you hold the Wii controller and take a whack at the ball on the monitor. Make that a virtual whack unless you want to smash your sensor and your screen.
The controller’s micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) senses motion. The MEMS devices have built-in MEMS accelerometers he explains. Accelerometer are used to detect impacts that trigger air bag deployments. The chip senses direction and acceleration changes in the electrons within it as the gamer swings the Wiimote. This allows the devices to differrentiate up, down, left right, forward, backward and acceleration. All this measurements are sent over to the Broadcom chip which transmits the data to the console in real time. ThatÂ’s how an “air backhand stroke” by the player gets translated into a virtual stroke in a tennis game.
At this point, most of us would say “wow” and start swishing the Wiimote with wild abandon and with little or no regard to the freaking electrons tumbling inside it. But not Dean with him saying “if all that is in there, what do they need the optical sensor for. Can’t they just calculate where the controller is pointing based on the XYZ data and motion data alone?“
Watch out Nintendo, we smell another console conspiracy expose from Dean.
Via Mercury News
Dean Takahashi, who uncloaked the mysteries of Xbox 360, now casts his investigative eye on Nintendo’s Wii. Apparently, the Kitty Kelley of consoles has been wondering about the Wii game console’s innovative controller. According to him:
I haven’t heard the answer to so far is what does the optical sensor do? Does anyone know? I suppose it tells the console that someone is standing in front of the TV and pointing something at the screen. But can’t the rest of the sensors do that?”
He knows the Wii remote control‘s built-in motion sensors provide interesting new kinds of gameplay where the controller extends your body. If you’re playing virtual tennis, you hold the Wii controller and take a whack at the ball on the monitor. Make that a virtual whack unless you want to smash your sensor and your screen.
The controller’s micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) senses motion. The MEMS devices have built-in MEMS accelerometers he explains. Accelerometer are used to detect impacts that trigger air bag deployments. The chip senses direction and acceleration changes in the electrons within it as the gamer swings the Wiimote. This allows the devices to differrentiate up, down, left right, forward, backward and acceleration. All this measurements are sent over to the Broadcom chip which transmits the data to the console in real time. ThatÂ’s how an “air backhand stroke” by the player gets translated into a virtual stroke in a tennis game.
At this point, most of us would say “wow” and start swishing the Wiimote with wild abandon and with little or no regard to the freaking electrons tumbling inside it. But not Dean with him saying “if all that is in there, what do they need the optical sensor for. Can’t they just calculate where the controller is pointing based on the XYZ data and motion data alone?“
Watch out Nintendo, we smell another console conspiracy expose from Dean.
Via Mercury News
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