Controlling Google Earth with the Wii Remote
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Reminds me a lot of the Jeff Han demo using Nasa World Wind. Plugging together GlovePie (drivers for the Wiimote on windows) with Custom drivers written by J Coulston, its a nice example of the kind of possibilities that are out there for those wanting to get there hands dirty with mashups like these, or their own creations from scratch. Its a shame that its not Analogue yet - its just mapped to keypresses for the meantime, and it doesnt use the pointer system, just tilt control. The sweet-spot for me would be pointing at the earth and dragging it to spin, much like a globe, leaning forwards and back to tilt the earth.
The fact that its been so easy to get the wii remote working on other systems makes me wonder if this was an intentional move by Nintendo to encourage people to experiment with wiimote based interaction without needing their own devkit?
