demize2010 showed us Call Of Duty using Kinect and WiiMote has put together this video where he plays Rainbow Six FPS.
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And for those who had questions about the WiiMote and Kinect pairing, he has answered all questions. This is what he has to say
“I’ve been reading comments and posts from around the internet very carefully over the last day and whilst there has been lots of positive feedback there were two main areas that needed addressing.
First there was questions as to whether or not Kinect was actually being used and second there were views that this didn’t really add anything to the Wii/Move experience. I think the first boils down to a general lack of understanding regarding the Kinect gesture binding and the second down to the game used.I hope in this video that both of those arguments are addressed
Squad commands and the cover system both use gestures, as does reloading, grenade throwing and interacting with the environment. These again use FAAST from the brilliant people at USC to bind gestures to key presses. Aiming and movement are done with the Wiimote and chuck for precision and fast responses.
The main problem with applying this to Vegas Two was the fact that crouch can only be set to a toggle. A clever hotkey script could fix this but I wanted to get this out ASAP. The second main problem is that my laptop isn’t that hot and FAAST alone uses about 30% of my CPU time, add in FRAPS recording over the top and I was playing at about 10FPS. This does have an impact on the responsiveness of the Wiimote aiming and sometimes gestures don’t get recognised if done to FAAST.
I hope you like the video and look forward to your comments.
On a final note this isn’t about a who’s is bigger in motion tech, please try and keep the Kinect / Move ranting to a minimum. There is a good chance that mouse emulation from Kinect hand tracking could remove the need for the mote – but with the mote you also get feedback when you pull the trigger and I wonder if playing with just your hand might feel a bit silly… The goal here is to see what is possible if everyone co-operates and moves on together.
As ever you can do this yourself with the FAAST hack http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/faast/ all the details for setting up OpenNI and NITE are on their page.
You’ll also need the GlovePIE software, a motionplus mote and a bluetooth dongle.
Thanks for watching, I’m going to get some much needed sleep now!”
