The array must be of 3 infrared LEDs arranged in a single row. The reasons for this are that the built-in Windows Bluetooth chips and stack have been known to raise compatibility issues.
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It is recommended that you use a third-party Bluetooth USB dongle such as those made by Belkin (F8T065) and install the Bluetooth drivers either from the included compact disc or downloaded from the manufacturer. Given the size of the infrared LED array you are using (see point 4 below) and typical subject movements, an ideal distance that allows accurate tracking but little loss of the subject s head is about 5 times as far away as the length of the LED array. The height you use will be a tradeoff between tracking accuracy (closer is better), and the area over which you can capture motion (farther is better). Given the limited field of view of the Wii remote s infrared camera, it is recommended that the remote be mounted at least a meter above the head. Microphone stands canĢ 2 be used for this purpose, provided they have a clip style microphone mount with jaws large enough to fit around the body of the remote. The wii remote should be mounted above the head, pointing down at the participant (see figure 1). We recommend either an original (pre-2010) Wii remote (the ones without the words Motion-Plus printed on the remote), or a first generation Motion-Plus remote. The most recent iteration of the Nintendo Wii remote has been known to have compatibility problems.
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Requirements 1) 1 or more Nintendo Wii remotes 2) 1 Microphone stand with clip or other mounting hardware for the remote 3) 1 Bluetooth Chip and associated software driver stack 4) 1 array of infrared LEDs (battery powered) 5) 1 copy of Matlab 6) 1 copy of the WiiLAB dynamic link library 7) 7 Matlab files (included here) Detailed Requirements 1) Wii remotes. If you find this code useful for your science, please cite Brimijoin et al (in press 2013, PLoS One). This will allow you to track yaw, rotations of the head in the vertical axis (shaking your head no ), but not pitch or roll. Note: this code does not do stereoscopic 3D tracking: it can only measure rotations that are in the plane of the camera.
Combined with Matlab and digital signal processing, it is possible to use this system to (e.g.) adjust signals presented over headphones in real-time so that they appear to remain fixed in space, rather than moving with the head. The Wii remote is a useful tool for researchers: the buttons on the device can be used for recording subject responses, the accelerometers can be used for detecting movement, and the camera can be used to do reasonably accurate motion-tracking of objects such as the head. It has buttons, a 3-axis accelerometer, and an infrared camera mounted on the front. The Wii remote is an inexpensive peripheral for a video game system built by Nintendo.
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Owen Brimijoin MRC Institute of Hearing Research (Scottish Section) Glasgow Royal Infirmary 16 Alexandra Parade Glasgow G31 2ER United Kingdom Introduction This document describes how to use a Wii remote to do simple single-axis motion tracking. 1 Motion tracking using Matlab, a Nintendo Wii Remote, and infrared LEDs.