Remember back when Nintendo gave us the Wiimote, challenged the industry to use their imaginations, and the industry subsequently imagined the truckloads of cash they could make by selling cheap plastic attachments? Remember when Johnny Chung Lee revealed that the key to unlocking the Wiimote’s potential was simply to turn the blasted thing around, but the one game that included the simple functionality dropped it at the last minute? Remember when CamSpace demonstrated that all you need to create the same effect was a simple webcam? No? Then this one’s for you.
CamSpace — a start-up recently profiled by TechCrunch — has just begun closed beta of Cam-Trax, a piece of free software that provides accurate, responsive 3D motion tracking seemingly on par with the best the Nintendo Wii can offer, and requires only a standard webcam to operate. The rest is, quite literally, up to your imagination. Video after the jump.
I’ll be honest; they had me at the choose-your-own-peripheral sequence. But Unreal Tournament 2004 playable with index finger and thumb? Pardon my French, but that, my friends, is made of win.
You can sign up for the closed beta, subscribe to the developer blog, and wonder how on earth a bottle of Sprite might manage to trump Nintendo’s $50 Wiimote, all at the official CamSpace website.
See also: Wii Fit hacked to work with WOW (Balance Board Blog via GameSpot)
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July 9th, 2008 at 5:01 am
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