Kalman Filters and Wiimote accelerometers
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 at 8:37am by Jack
Sometimes when I read articles over at Gamasutra I feel like I’ve accidentally stumbled onto the campus of M.I.T. here in Boston much like Matt Damon’s troubled character did in Good Will Hunting. Only unlike Matt, when I step in front of that chalkboard, I draw silly little pictures of cartoon animals, because I never took Calculus and math is more of a foreign language to me than Japanese.
Today’s article on Wiimotes and accelerometers was one of those kinds of articles. Honestly, when I see Greek letters my mind immediately flashes back to keggers at UNH, not theorems.
That there on the left is just a taste of what’s to come if you venture over to Gamasutra to read about Kalman Filters. However, when your mind isn’t being bent by algebra and trig and calculus, you could learn a thing or two about how there’s still some latent potential in that little white controller. Wii Golf a bit quirky for you? Well it is for me too, to the point where I pretty much stick to tennis, bowling and Wii training, but this article opened my eyes a bit. When they got uncrossed from all the formulas, anyway.
June 21st, 2007 at 9:44 am
w00t first
June 21st, 2007 at 10:00 am
Talk about a headache. I just did another search on that ‘Kalman Filter’. This will give you a migraine! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
June 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Why people say that wii golf is quirky is beyond me. Swinging is completly intuitive and putting… well it might not be easy at first but it’s neither quirky nor broken. Keep your arms straight and just move your upper body and you’ll be fine.
Golf is easily my favorite game of Wii Sports, it would be awesome to have new courses and maybe a career mode as downloadable content.
June 21st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Exactly what I have observed with Wii Sports Golf Eisensammler.
If you don’t try to flick golf shots out of the wrist and don’t shake it around wildly and keep the Wiimote facing down and swing with the upper body it works flawless 9 out of 10 times.
Just a bit of training is all that is needed IMO.
June 21st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Wow .. the magic has officially been sucked out of the Wiimote now. GIVE IT BACK!