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Here's "Pall Thayer's fun with Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor (ams/sms/accelerometer)" It's pretty much the coolest widget I've ever seen - once installed on a new-ish Powerbook or iBook, you can use your computer as a level. While the act of viewing a level isn't exactly earth-shattering, there are lots of new ideas and applications being developed: a virtual world controller and a marble madness port...(and here's a puppet) [via] Link. If you're wondering what this looks like, here's a video (MP4).
Use a Powerbook as a level...(video)
Here's "Pall Thayer's fun with Apple's Sudden Motion Sensor (ams/sms/accelerometer)" It's pretty much the coolest widget I've ever seen - once installed on a new-ish Powerbook or iBook, you can use your computer as a level. While the act of viewing a level isn't exactly earth-shattering, there are lots of new ideas and applications being developed: a virtual world controller and a marble madness port...(and here's a puppet) [via] Link. If you're wondering what this looks like, here's a video (MP4).
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Jan 24, 2006 06:30 AM
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Is it just me or is gravity inverted wherever this guy is? The air bubble in his level *sinks*! :)
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That would be really nice if the bubble moved in the right direction.
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Hey, if you can do this, why not do the following?
Use a GPS locator device, lock your 'windows' to its current location and altitude and make your desktop global. This would be a huge desktop!
So when you move your notebook to the left, your windows stay put but other windows slide in to your screen frame.
Where did I left my Photoshop instance? Oh, yes about 35.6/78.3 and 6 foot high above sealevel.
Is that what they meant by 'virtual reality' or 'virtual desktop' or what?
Your cyberspace is unlimited expandable!
- Unomi -
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Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one bothered by the inverted action of the bubble.
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normal levels use air bubbles, maybe this one is a dense object??? therefore it would *sink* why would one have to rewrite the laws of gravity, when all you have to do is think a little harder....
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normal levels use air bubbles, maybe this one is a dense object??? therefore it would *sink* why would one have to rewrite the laws of gravity, when all you have to do is think a little harder....
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Don't be silly: it's CLEARLY a bubble :P
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as a stabila fan, i have to say it was hurting my eyes and giving me a headache to see the bubble going the wrong way. hopefully that'll be fixed.
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as a stabila fan, i have to say it was hurting my eyes and giving me a headache to see the bubble going the wrong way. hopefully that'll be fixed.
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The C code for the motion sensor is different on various i and Powerbooks. Apple changed the specs also. I got a more natural bubble motion by changing the line in the HTML source of the widget to
AMSout = (AMSsplit[0]*(-3)+176);
Also, I do not know if the source of the 'motion' c program is updated yet to incorporate the Powerbook HiRes (1,67 GHz). You might have to recompile the motion.c source and re-assemble the widget.
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