The Wii-mote is not all about making some good moves while playing Legend Of Zelda on the Wii, but also bringing it in daily use. As the remote has already shown immense use in our daily life, here comes another by Daniel M. German, who has tied up the motion-sensing device with the camera for better perception.
The device in collaboration with the camera helps in automating perspective correction and projection adjustments for wide angle photography. In whole set-up, the Wii-mote is used to record the pitch and roll of the camera while clicking the photograph. This information can then be fed directly into panotools, instead of manually entering control lines and processing the images to calculate these tilt values after the fact. Here is what modder says over at Turingmachine.org:
I modified an open source DarwiinRemote to record inclination. It happens that if you keep the WiiR in a stationary state, its three accelerometers can be used as two inclinometers. Fortunately most of the time, when one takes a handheld photo, one keeps the camera steady. Steady enough to read the inclination of the WiiR. I also modified the driver to record the reading from the accelometers, the estimated inclinations, and the timestamp. I would then use the timestamp to match the images from the camera to the readings from the WiiR.
In all honesty, the new mod sounds cool. After making huge number of teenagers and senior citizens step inside living room for longish gaming sessions, the Wii-mote has shown yet another usability outside gaming arena. (More here)
Special thanks to Daniel M. German
