On the cross-fertilization of geospatial and semantic web technology

Using Wii Fit to cruise around Google Earth

Mattieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler at DFKI demonstrate the use of Wii Balance Board as an input device to Google Earth. The application they developed is written in C#.

It’s pretty amazing what one can do with Wii controllers.

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Posted in Research | May 28th, 2008 by harrychen | Tags: , , | | Post to del.icio.us | Digg this story | I Reddit

3 Comments

  1. very neat, thanks for this

    Comment by William Tildesley — May 28, 2008 @ 5:56 pm

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  3. Would love to see this with a snowboarding / skateboarding / surfing game. Seems natural :)

    VERY nice idea, though. I love the way the Nintendo peripherals are going so much farther than Nintendo ever intended :)

    Comment by 4fthawaiian — May 28, 2008 @ 10:01 pm

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