Male Speaker: For the gaming community, the Wii remote seems to be one of the best inventions of this century. In this video, I'm going to show you some cool things you can do with your Wii remote and your PC.
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Male Speaker: For this project, you been a need a Wii remote and if your computer doesn't have Bluetooth built-in to it, you'll need a Bluetooth adapters as well. First website is called bluesoleil.com, and this application is a free trial application, you have to pay for the full version but in this video using the free trial work just fine. So I'm downloading the free trial version of it, and once you install it puts a sort of Bluetooth Places shortcut on your desktop.
Now, if you take your Wii remote and press down on the one in two buttons at the exact sometime, you should see a little icon like this popup when your Bluetooth Places folder and if you right click on it and select connect, it should turn green which means it's connected. Now, if you do a Google search for a WiinRemote and that has two eyes in it, you should end up at this website which allows you to download the little WiinRemote application. And once you downloaded and extracted this is what the program looks like and it has a little enabled cursors button and if you click on that it should allow you to use your Wii Remote as the mouse cursor for your computer. And you can tilt it left and right and up and down to left or right up and down or you can also use the arrow keys on the WiinRemote to do the same thing.
And if you click on the A button that's the same things as doing a left mouse click and if you click on the B button that's the same thing is doing your right mouse click. So in this example, I've just opened up little Paint application, and I'm showing you how you can move around the Wii Remote and simulate mouse clicks and dragging the mouse.
The next application is called GlovePIE, so if you do a Google search for that it should take you to this website, and you can download their application and it's free as well, and this allows you to run different scripts, so if you extract it and double click on well glovepie.exe, go to File and Open, you should see a little WiimoteScripts folder, and this has a ton of different script that you can try out. And it kind of gives a description of them, I just opened up that any NES.PIE script and then clicked Run and what that does is it allows you to use your Wii Remote as NES controller. So this is my little NES emulator that I showed you in the last video and I'm using the Wii Remote kind of like classic NES controller. I'll just turn it sideways and you can move around and do all the basic functions with that.
Now, you can see, there is a GoogleEarth script that you run and then, there's also GoogleEarthIR script that you can run, both of these word but the GoogleEarthIR require the Wii sensor bar and that just has little infrared LEDs in it. So you can also use a couple of candles but it's preferred you use the sensor bar and you can see that above my screen with the blue light, and this allows you to kind of zoom and fly around Google Earth using a combination of the sensor bar and the Wii Remote, so that's pretty cool little script.
This is a PowerPoint script that allows you to negative through PowerPoints and then this right here is a Counter-Strike Script that allows you to use the Wii Remote to control the counter-strike player. There's also have scripts for Call of Duty and a whole bunch of other games and applications; you will just have to mess around with it.
Now, if you do a Google search for a Wii Whiteboard that takes you to Johnny Chung Lee's website, and if you play the video he'll gives you steps on how to setup a virtual Whiteboard using the Wii and how to create a little infrared pen for it, and you have to have an infrared pen for this to work. I just launched the application, this little infrared pen I have I just ripped apart in older remote control and put the battery up to the infrared LED that was in it.
So this pretty much turns any surface into a touch screen. So if you projector, you can project this image up on a wall and just touch the wall on, it will simulate a touch screen. But as you can see I just tap my Wii Remote pointing directly at my screen, and I'm using -- that kind of turns my screen into a touch screen computer.
Now, right below the Wii Whiteboard application is the desktop VR virtual reality applications, and if you download that and launch it, launches a bunch of targets and this requires not only the Wii Remote but also this sensor bar kind of like the Google Earth application does. And the orientation of the targets follows wherever the center bar is, so if you have this on like a hat or glasses or something it's a, the targets are following your around kind of gives you a virtual reality type feel, so that's what really cool application for that. So give all this a try out, there are lot of fun and for more go to www.tinkernut.com
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