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Possibly posted while being maverick'd. I don't know. Can't remember who banned him.
looks better than the Roll n' Rocker, that's for sure. but then again, nothing's more fun than drinking Rolling Rock on the Roll n' Rocker.
Nintendo's prime directive for this current console generation has been to broaden the ways in which Wii owners interact with their games. Beginning with the motion-sensing Wii Remote and Nunchuk, the Japanese company has since introduced a Balance Board, which has taken on the functionality of anything from a bathroom scale to a pair of skis, and a Vitality Sensor, which Nintendo announced at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo.
An artist's representation of the device.
All that's fine and well for getting gamers to interact with their Wii in different ways, but as noted by Nintendo in a patent filing with the European Patent Office spotted by gaming site Siliconera, sometimes people just need to get on their horses and ride. Bemoaning the fact that most horse-riding simulations are often monstrous contraptions, Nintendo states that: "It would be desirable to provide an inexpensive, convenient way to realistically simulate, in the home, riding on horseback or on other animals."
As outlined in Nintendo's patent filing, said device involves attaching motion-sensing controllers to an inflatable cushion or other sitting device. Giving the example of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Nintendo states that the accelerometers on the controllers would be able to sense a gamer's motion as he or she bounces on an inflatable cushion. In response, the game being played on the Wii would respond accordingly, mimicking the motion of a player riding an animal in-game.
Here's how the cushion might work.
Force feedback could also be incorporated into the device. Nintendo notes that the electronic, inflatable cushion could be outfitted with haptic feedback transmitters, which would vibrate in response to occurrences within the game. Taking it one step further, the patent also details a way in which the game could jostle the rider around to mimic a bumpy in-game ride.
Nintendo's horseback riding simulator patent was initially filed with the European Patent Office on January 15, 2009, and was published on the organization's Web site in late July.
) when they realized they were still in the hospital bed in FAUST....
Oh well, looks like we're back in the story... AGAIN... Thank god we still have our clothes... Good hospitals don't put you in stupid robes...
, I have a simple solution for this... why don't they just use i4i's x4o thing, and say "made with i4i technology" like they did with IE when it used the old Spyglass system?
, thats the best mod yet.
". Think maybe you could control a whole robot with some kind of kinetic link some day?
