There are thousands of papers that used the Wii in novel, sometimes weird, research applications & I've been digging through a few of them so here's a thread!
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Wii+A…
![CiteSeer search results sho...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hZ5EX0AA-KhY.jpg)
![Photo of the Wii](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hZ5zWkAE7R9_.jpg)
- a VR head tracking system
- turning any table into an interactive whiteboard
- a finger tracking system
This is all from 2007!
johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
e.g. The GIF below is just a big folded piece of paper!
YouTube link: youtube.com/watch?v=nhSR_6…
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/14…
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
![Participant during the eval...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hdjjWoAAqqKL.jpg)
![Diagram showing the effect ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hdjkWAAA5K1X.jpg)
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![Images made by participants...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hd3pXgAAwhyJ.jpg)
![Diagrams showing the differ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hd3-WoAECWrq.jpg)
![Two diagrams from the paper...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hd6WXsAAh9SO.jpg)
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
![Photos & diagrams from the ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3heZcWsAILqL0.jpg)
![Robot platform with Asus ee...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3heZfXsAoZBHP.jpg)
The authors note Wiisearchers "use MATLAB for camera calibration and resolving points in 3D space", bringing us to the last paper...
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
![Hand with finger slips mad...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3heuzWAAAEClU.jpg)
![Photograph the NuWii setup....](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3heu7XsAElDBJ.jpg)
![Diagram of three gestures: ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3heu_WAAAtlTo.jpg)
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summar…
![MATLAB inverted pendulum ap...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hfCoXQAQ20jk.jpg)
![Wiimote photo and a couple ...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hfB9XgAEcTBo.jpg)
![Diagram showing the final p...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX3hfCEWoAYdIoD.jpg)