The Nintendo Wii has been subject to more than a few hacks to use the hardware for everything from PC control to motion tracking.   It’s turned out to be a pretty flexible and dynamic piece of equipment for all sorts of things.    Here’s a pretty amazing video I found of a guy who has managed to rig up a head tracking system that adjusts the perspective to create a nifty 3D illusion.

I can see a couple limitations with this.  First, you can only do it with one person at a time and secondly, there’s motion but no eye-to-eye 3D illusion.   The second one could be remedied with a pair of 3D stereoscopic  glasses, which already exist, up until now the stereoscopic experience has been only so-so because of the lack of motion-based perspective.   But in any case, even without stereoscopic, what this guy has going is pretty damn amazing.   I WANT ONE!

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