Tag: Accelerometer

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Lab, recent

Spiel- und Fernsteuerung via Smartphone

Almost everyone had already a controller of a WII in hand or at least knows how to use it. With simple hand movements, transfered to the virtual character, this generation of games is controlled.   What works only with games of this specific console is is by principle also possible with other devices. So I got the idea to use the accelerometer of a smartphone, in order to achieve the same functionality and to control a game on my local machine.     Because I’m thinking about including this type of control into a larger project, I will not publish the corresponding code. But basically there are the computer that […]

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Making the Game, recent

Making The Game – Teil 4: Alternative NUI Eingabemöglichkeiten ( Bewegungssteuerung und Beschleunigunssensoren )

So far I’ve only talked about multi-touch enabled computers as representative devices with NUI, but not just smartphones and tablet computers belong to this category.   Besides the possibility of using the touch screen there are approaches to the control a computer via body movements. For example the Kinect for Xbox, which can detect body movements and gestures using the integrated camera, belongs to this category of input devices. To recognize the player the Kinect uses besides a color camera a depth sensor camera, sus the person can act in three dimensions. It is also possible to recognize the movements of a person using a normal camera . This basic […]