Wii Remote Details Unveiled

[Pilot_51]

Originally Posted by nmaster64

And Pilot, it says that shouldn't be a problem because "the Wii-mote needs to first register the coordinates of the two sensors on the sensor bar". This helps keep the interference from...well, interfering.

Why mention it if it makes you calibrate first and calibrating eliminates the interference? I think there could still be interference problems if the lighting is all wrong even after calibrating, but we all hope it'll be minimal. I wonder what exactly the light interferes with, the light sensor in the controller or is there some way it actually interferes with the wireless signal?

[fischju]

you forgot to mention that the wiimote sees a 1 megapixel image.....wii sports faces or spying on you at night with WiiConnect24? You decide

[nmaster64]

Originally Posted by Pilot_51

Why mention it if it makes you calibrate first and calibrating eliminates the interference? I think there could still be interference problems if the lighting is all wrong even after calibrating, but we all hope it'll be minimal. I wonder what exactly the light interferes with, the light sensor in the controller or is there some way it actually interferes with the wireless signal?

You know, I was thinking the EXACT same thing. If the calibration fixes it, why would you mention such an issue? It may have to do with the type of document this came from. What we need to worry about is if it says that in the instruction manual, because then it must be an actual problem...

[bignds]

Originally Posted by fischju

you forgot to mention that the wiimote sees a 1 megapixel image.....wii sports faces or spying on you at night with WiiConnect24? You decide

Wtf? Serious? Its got a camera in it? Why didnt this get really publicised?? Surely that mustve been the last big secret.

[ShadowMarth]

I don't think it's got a camera. And the lighting thing doesn't bother me. I would turn off the lights between me and the TV anyway because of glare.

[nmaster64]

Interestingly, according to documentation the Wii-mote is able to act as something of an eye, measuring coordinates between 0-1023 on the X axis and 0-767 on the Y axis, which means that it is more or less seeing a megapixel image. Whether or not this data can be interpreted into visual information remains unknown, but we're not ruling out the possibility that the pointer could sub as a camera. This is, of course, purely speculative on our part, but stranger things have certainly happened - like, for instance, an internal speaker.

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[fischju]

well it would cut costs, wii sports uses your face and there will probably be a wii sports bundle so why include a seperate camera if you can just tweek the wii-mote?

[ShadowMarth]

Dude, Wii Sports doesn't use your face, it just has a face editor.

[Yoshi]

Face Editor ftw...becuz it would break if it took a pic of *coughjkcough*

[lemmywinks]

A camera would rock though... and an inbuilt ice cream machine, but meh, can't have everything.