January 9, 2008

The Coolest Training Lab Ever…

…might just be based on the Nin­tendo Wii?

Check out Johnny Chung Lee’s Wii Projects and count how many times you find your­self say­ing “wow.” And if you own a Wii, see if you don’t want to try to doing all of these things your­self. I know I do.

Unin­tended con­se­quences are often the most inter­est­ing ones. As I watched these videos, I found myself think­ing about Allan Kleiman’s work at the Old Bridge Pub­lic Library, using the Wii to intro­duce seniors to tech­nol­ogy, won­der­ing if this type of setup would work bet­ter for those folks who have trou­ble using a com­puter mouse.

The head track­ing video is really inter­est­ing, too, as it might be a pre­cur­sor to a home ver­sion of The Cave. Imag­ine being able to walk into a book on your videogame con­sole (Hotel Dusk for the Wii, any­one?). 3D gam­ing — and the lit­era­cies that would come with it — might be much closer than we think.

I really want some time to play with this stuff! [Thanks, Clare!]

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9:05 pm Comments (4)

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  1. […] Read the rest of this great post here […]

    Pingback by The Coolest Training Lab Ever… | Technology — January 9, 2008 @ 10:15 pm

  2. I love his videos and novel use of the Wii tech­nol­ogy. I need to go track him down and see what else he’s got on the burn­ers. He is prob­a­bly only a floor away. lol

    I would love to see inter­ac­tive book expe­ri­ences made usable with the Wii. I won­der when some­one will try to build that using the Blue­Tooth con­nec­tiv­ity and some­thing that can run in Opera. Though it seems the real power of the Wii Remote is when it is sep­a­rated from the con­sole. Who knows what the future holds…

    Comment by John Fudrow — January 10, 2008 @ 8:49 am

  3. Wasn’t expect­ing a Hotel Dusk reference!

    Comment by terry — January 10, 2008 @ 9:41 am

  4. I wish I could say that the local libraries were involved in this, but who knows — maybe they will be as the pilot goes on.
    http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/southlondonpress/southwark/tm_headline=youths-are-all-part-of-the-games-plan%26method=full%26objectid=20336945%26siteid=50100-name_page.html

    Comment by Alice Tyrell — January 13, 2008 @ 12:01 pm

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