We just finished our bachelor project and thought it would be fun to show you guys the final prototype.
Our group set out to investigate alternative controllers, and the impact it has on player experience. Through the project we developed a small game, the alternative controller shown in this video and a series of tests to evaluate performance as well as impact on player experience. Imagine playing a cool shooter game like this
See the gun in action here
Also, an apology to Twiik of this forum. We totally copied the style of your third person shooter and used it as the test environment for our controller. We obviously dont intend to publish any of this as our own idea, we just needed a little game for evaluating the controller, and didnt have time to create our own style
Forgot to mention that this thing runs without external optics like the sensor bar. Its not running perfect, but we did measure a heightened state of immersion on our test players
Well we use the UniWii plugin for accelerometer data from the wiimote, and thumbstick data from the Nunchuk. We use the Arduino board and our own Processing software to read the gyroscope data from the Wii Motion Plus sensor (we took it apart, you can see it on top of the first wooden prototype we did).
Its not hard to assemble all these sensors by yourself, we just took apart Wii hardware because that gave us easy access, and allowed us to get further within the timeframe of a semester. It would be better to implement the sensors from scratch since Nintendo already applied filters etc to their hardware, but for a prototype it works pretty well
