A interview with Johnny Lee
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A couple of weeks ago we did a post on his Insane Virtual Reality headset that he has developed by Johnny Lee and now Adam Parekh of Hacked Gadgets has interviewed him!
Below is a part of the interview
AP: Your Wii projects have been taking the Web by storm! What attracted you to the Wiimote as your interaction device of choice?
JL: Well, I was excited by the Wii Remote ever since the original press release about its capabilities was public. Ironically, I was an intern at Microsoft the summer before the Xbox 360 was launched. Several internal people, including me, were still trying to convince the Xbox group they should put an accelerometer into the controller. That, of course, didn’t happen. The Wii remote is one of the most sophisticated input devices available today and an amazing piece of engineering containing an accelerometer, camera, and wireless communication. Combined with the ease in which you can connect it to a computer made it an obvious choice for experimentation.
AP: Have you had any discussions with Nintendo? Do you think they could use some of your techniques to enhance their console?
JL: I have not formally had any contact with Nintendo about this. I speculate that the Nintendo engineers who developed the controller probably knew of this technique, but probably passed on the idea or were saving it for a later product launch. But, these ideas can definitely be used in a Wii title assuming they would be willing to bundle a little bit of new hardware with it. I know several game developers are starting to look at the idea. Hopefully, the game concepts will make it all the way to market.
The rest of the Interview with Johnny Lee can be found over on Hacked Gadgets.com and i a very good read.
Jay Garrick @ 1:32 pm