Wiimote

When looking at navigation I began to think about how people would use the product. Some options I thought of were the obvious touchscreen interface or the more playful idea of a physical action, like turning the object, to change what you can view. I then got an idea from watching the RIGB christams lectures where infrared LED's and an infrared camera are used to interact with a product. I found more ideas like this on the web. . .the best site is by Johnny Chung Lee. He is a bit of a genius when it comes to adapting the technology used within the Wii console and remote.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

I followed one of his tutorials which make use of the technology within the Wii remote.

I wanted to use the Wii Multipoint programme I found on Johnny Lees site. This would be perfect for my product if it ends up being a projection. I could change it to take in different videos which people can interact with Minority Report style. By moving their hands around they can choose what they want to watch. However I couldn't get this programme to work but I still wanted to PLAY with the infrared technology. I downloaded the Whiteboard programme instead and managed to get it up and working as you can see in the video above.