Comments on: links for 2006-12-13 http://highearthorbit.com/links-for-2006-12-13/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Andrew http://highearthorbit.com/links-for-2006-12-13/#comment-53666 Andrew Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:58:29 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/links-for-2006-12-13/#comment-53666 Well, the DS has WiFi - so you can use WiFi geolocation as well as the relative nav of the DS Motion Card to provide probably fairly high-resolution indoor location. Coupled with the dual displays and touch-screen inputs, would make for a very neat interactive exhibit device. Of course, good suggestion on the WiiMote too - that could also be used as an actual "wand" so as you walk around a museum, use it to activate and control various exhibits as you approach them. There has been a lot of advancement in using WiiMotes for computers and streaming the Accels. Well, the DS has WiFi - so you can use WiFi geolocation as well as the relative nav of the DS Motion Card to provide probably fairly high-resolution indoor location. Coupled with the dual displays and touch-screen inputs, would make for a very neat interactive exhibit device.

Of course, good suggestion on the WiiMote too - that could also be used as an actual “wand” so as you walk around a museum, use it to activate and control various exhibits as you approach them. There has been a lot of advancement in using WiiMotes for computers and streaming the Accels.

]]> By: Allan Doyle http://highearthorbit.com/links-for-2006-12-13/#comment-53663 Allan Doyle Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:16:07 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/links-for-2006-12-13/#comment-53663 Regarding the DS Motion Card - what I would love to see is a Bluetooth version of this or the WiiMote that just streams an xyz offset from the last time you hit a button on it or send it a reset message. That could provide a decent solution for indoor navigation. Each time you're at a known location indoors, reset it, and roam around. You could put reset points around a building every few hundred meters of hallway. Stand on the red X to resync your navigator... of course at some point we'll have ICBM inertial navigation accuracy and will only have to rest every 1000 miles or so. Regarding the DS Motion Card - what I would love to see is a Bluetooth version of this or the WiiMote that just streams an xyz offset from the last time you hit a button on it or send it a reset message. That could provide a decent solution for indoor navigation. Each time you’re at a known location indoors, reset it, and roam around. You could put reset points around a building every few hundred meters of hallway. Stand on the red X to resync your navigator… of course at some point we’ll have ICBM inertial navigation accuracy and will only have to rest every 1000 miles or so.

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