Johnny Chung Lee

Check out Johnny Lee's awesome "Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw More great stuff: http://www.johnnylee.net

As gently as I can manage ... At the end of the video is a URL for his website. It is http://johnnylee.net/ His website is pretty neat. It includes more of his Wii remote projects -- including his interactive whiteboard which I think is even more interesting -- and it includes a link to his academic pursuits. Following the "Academics" link, you'll find that his thesis project is "Projector-Based Location Discovery and Tracking", which takes his whiteboard hobby a couple of steps further.

I remember following the work of this guy, Johnny Chung Lee, who did a ton of really neat human-interface stuff with the Wii remote's IR sensor: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

If you can live with a very basic solution you could build a Wii Smartboard: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ I did for a few years :) Was great!

In response to the xkcd alt text: Where _is_ the wiimote headtracking? I remember this amazing project by Johnny Chung Lee a long time ago [1], I haven't seen anything come out of it. [1] http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Nice! Here's the description: What I did was rig it to track contours on the depth image, and attempt to pick out a rectangular object. Then, by using the detected location of the corners, I can apply it as a perspective transform to my laser projector. The end result is that the cardboard box I'm holding becomes a "virtual screen" that is tracked by the laser projection in real time and in perspective :) Reminds me of Johnny Lee's awesome Projector-Based Location Discovery and Tracking work: http://johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/ Also, there seem to be a fair number of Kinect projects popping up nowadays. Is there a website to keep track of all this? If not, perhaps it would be worth someone's effort to start a blog on the topic...

I'm not a dad, but I had a guy in the office put together a wiimote whiteboard with his 8 year old. He supplied the following links: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard

Reminds me of Johnny Lee's Wii-mote projects... http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

... or the various projects by Johnny Lee [1], using the then new wiimote in completely novel ways [2][3]. 15 years later, I'm still surprised these proof-of-concepts didn't evolve into something more commercial. [1] http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

I still have my IR light-pen somewhere that I bought for his Wii Whiteboard app[1]. This was just a few years after the Minority Report movie, and multi-touch was still something that felt super sci-fi to me at the time. Seeing it come alive with just a wiimote and an IR pen was neat. 1. http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

http://johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/ from which foldable displays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSR_6-Y5Kg

The story was will written and I do like the telewindow. Reminds me of the hacks with the Nintendo wiimotes (1). Definitely trivial but really cool! (1) http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

This appears to be by Johnny Chung Lee, who did all the experiments with head tracking, and finger tracking with the Nintendo Wii controller many years ago (http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/).

This is very similar to Johnny Lee's initial exploration with Wii... http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

Motion control: What a difference an 'er' makes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_control eg. https://github.com/synthetos/TinyG Motion controller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_controller eg. http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

"- Johnny Lee and the ATAP-Project Tango Team" Johnny Lee was the guy with the awesome Wii Controller demos back in 2007 (can't believe it's been that long). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw edit: here's the full set of demos: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ (also, I'm assuming it's the same guy, but his site says he's at Google now)

Reminds me of the work by Johnny Lee on projector calibration. His appears to be a bit faster. http://johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/

See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE , which is actually a product that you can buy, though I think it was never localized for the US. Edit: Also, http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ , under "Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote" (down a bit). (Also, to be clear, I just mean these as interesting "see alsos". I am not saying "it's been done" (so what?) or "it doesn't work" (I have no direct experience to make a judgment). Nor am I saying anyone accused me otherwise. The iPad is still a potential interesting sweet spot for this tech.)

He was still at CMU when he was hacking Wii-motes: http://johnnylee.net/projects/

>A nice middle ground is a whiteboard + a digital camera. Or perhaps a digital whiteboard using the Wii adaptation, a cheap projector, computer and an IR pen? http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ http://www.google.com/search?q=wii+whiteboard

You probably meant this as a joke, but I have a friend who is hyper-organized with all of her to-dos on a whiteboard... different sections are different things/different priority levels. Maybe we will hack together a Wii whiteboard Johnny Chung Lee style and use virtual post-its! (http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/)

This is interesting. It's definitely a different take than the laser virtual keyboard or the Wii Remote. What sort of advantages does this have over hacking a Wii Remote? Is it more portable? Is it more sensitive? Arguably it's design would work better in a mobile environment. When I look at recent innovations in this sector (gestures/gyroscopes) I think the Wii is the product that's made the biggest impact on the industry and the first to (at least widely) release a product that does as advertised. See http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/