Alternative interaction methods 
Ive been playing the wii recently, 'working' my way through ResidentEvil : The Umbrella Chronicles. Its a cool game, it goes through the first four games of the Resident Evil series, but in the style of a lightgun game using the wiiRemote pointer/cursor. I also purchased a new laptop and wondered if I could control my interactive using the wiRemote as a cursor so 'googled' "wii for PC". I found that you could operate the cursor using the tilt functions of the wiiRemote (tilt back for up, twist left for the cursor to move left). This taken away from the point of me wanting to use the wiiRemote pointer.
The wiiRemote has an infrared tracking camera. The wiiSensor bar emits infrared light which tells the wiiRemote where its pointing. I thought that the sensor bar tells the wii and the wii tells the remote where its pointing, this isn't the case as no information passes down the sensor bars connection to the wii, all that connection is for is to power the infrared LEDs. I found that you could even use two candles as a sensor bar and the wii would work exactly the same.FACT.(this course is slowly turning me into a nerd....also...FACT.)
MyWiimoteControlsMyLaptop!!...
After looking on various forums I found that I'd have to make a sensor bar for my laptop with the USB powering the infrared LEDs. Ive not had an electronics 'project' since school, but am kinda aware of what resistors are... so just went for it. I followed instructions on; http://www.modpulse.com/articles/console-mods/usb-wii-sensor-bar/
I brought all the bits from Maplins and got soldering!...
The WiiRemote is connected to the pc by Bluetooth, so had to sync those.
...and it works!
I found.. theres a guy called Johnny Chung Lee hes a student at Carnegie Mellon University and has developed various projects using the wiiRemotes infrared capabilities. I'd urge you to check his Blog - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
T.
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Interesting stuff, man! It'd be really cool if they actually used that idea to make some crazy games where you get to blast zombies from all angles, haha! A mate of mine found a way to use his Wii remote to control Windows Media Player on his computer, so he pressed the plus and minus buttons to control the volume...but I'm not sure how!
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