PMC use case

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:12:04 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 13:00:27 Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> > > (*) I've played around with a wiimote last weekend and now have a
> > > Qt-style class that
> > > can be used to interact with the features of a wiimote, buttons, LEDs,
> > > accelerometers
> > > and haptic feedback at this point. I've got myself a copy of O'Reilly's
> > > "designing
> > > gestural interfaces", and I think we can get quite far, from a
> > > functionality and an
> > > intuitiveness point of view by using such a device as main controller.
> > > That's
> > > something I work on in a lost hour here and there.
> >
> > Do you have some code i can look at/contribute to? I have a wiimote and
> > I'd like to start playing with it for the PMC. Am I supposed to have
> > infrared on my laptop?
> 
> No need to, the class doesn't support the infrared stuff right now. For
> simple  gestures, such as swiping to scroll, it'll be fine. The infrared
> stuff can be added pretty easily though, just didn't get to that yet.

For communication between PC and Wiimote, it uses Bluetooth. Just a wiimote and a 
bluetooth adapter is enough to use it.

> I'll clean up and put it online tonight.
-- 
sebas

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