Navigating Arts Metaverse Using Wii Remote - Croquet and Wii Remote
Oui, we got Wii remote working with Croquet this afternoon. We were preparing for the 2007 UBC Townhall tomorrow and a funny thought came to my mind – why can't we use wii remote to navigate through Arts Metaverse? This way, we can get some audience up to the stage and wii their way out our Arts Metaverse!
My co-worker Liang kindly brought over her Wii remote and we hooked it up to an iMac (configured using DarwiinRemote). Then we fired open Croquet and voila it worked beautifully.
We configured holding down B key and tilt (or rotate) the wii remote to walk around, A to move objects and windows, - for changing perspective (camera position), + for panning view points (camera angle), press 1 or 2 to stop using the Wii remote. I attached a diagram to illustration the configuration:
Check out the following video to see it in action:
Basic navigation inside of Open Croquet using a Wii Remote! Walking, and moving objects demostrated in this video.
Explaining wii remote configuration in Open Croquet...
Liang practicing wii remote in Open Croquet
Comments:
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06/29/07 @ 20:36 · http://www.connect2mec.com/ It's great to see your experiments with the Wii - very innovative. I'll be interested to see how you progress with this.
On a slightly unrelated issue - how do you get Youtube clips to sit inside your blog like that? It's much neater thatn just using a link but I cant work out how to do it on my blog...
Thanks,
Steph
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07/03/07 @ 07:07 · http://xaverse.blogspot.com/ http://xaverse.blogspot.com/2007/10/controlling-croquet-with-wii-remote-on.html
Interesting that your buttons are set up almost identically to how we did ours. We also mapped the directional pad to forward, backward, left, and right.
We found the fine-grained navigation to be a bit tedious. Did you guys have any difficulties with traversing menus?
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10/22/07 @ 23:00