Howto:Wii Remote Head Tracking

So, I would like to do head tracking with a Wii Remote and flightgear. Today I bought a Wii Lego Remote for $29.99 from Walmart. Tomorrow I will buy two High-Output Infrared LEDs catalog #276-143 from Radio Shack.

Note  Right now this page is just a blog tracking my progress.

Hardware Required

• Wii Remote $29.99
• High-Output Infrared LEDs catalog #276-143 from Radio Shack $2.20x2 $4.40
• A blue tooth USB dongle ~$20
• Some LED flashlight glasses ~$20

Software Required

I decided to start with linux-track. I pulled the SVN head sources, but had ./configure errors until I updated my gobjc package to 4.6. Apparently 4.2 either was not sufficient or had bit-rotted away. There was a problem with recursive includes in linux-track-read-only/src/tests/webcam_driver_test.c. I had to install the following debian packages libbluetooth-dev libbluetooth3 libcwiid-dev libcwiid1

First launch required LD_LIBRARY_PATH since it uses shared libraries. For some silly reason they put them in a hidden directory.

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=src/.libs/ ./src/qt_gui/ltr_gui

• http://code.google.com/p/linux-track/
• http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11345

But there are also a few other projects to consider:

• http://rpavlik.github.com/wiimote-head-tracker-gui/
• https://github.com/rpavlik/wiimote-head-tracker-gui

Or

• https://github.com/ralph-glass/headtrack
• https://github.com/ralph-glass/headtrack

Or

• http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/

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