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iFun Wii app demonstrated at iGames Summit
updated 04:35 pm EDT, Fri March 20, 2009
iFun app for Wii
Use of iFun has been demonstrated at the recent iGames Summit. The app enables an iPhone or iPod touch to be treated as a virtual remote for Nintendo's Wii console. Accelerometer and touchscreen controls are forwarded over local Wi-Fi, or else via a 3G network. By using a Facebook account and logging into the Social Gaming Network, the technology is also able to relay players' swings, shakes and steering to games played on a computer.
Each machine is capable of handling inputs from multiple iPhone and iPod touch devices simultaneously. During the demonstration, an iPhone was used as a steering wheel for a PC racing title, and also fitted into a prototype Wii-style golf club or tennis racket unit.
not used for wii....
03/20, 08:17pm reply
I didn't see anywhere in the first news story about it being used on the wii just that it has wii like controls...
"The system can handle inputs from multiple iPhone or iPod touch units at once, similar to the Bluetooth-connected Wii Remote controllers Nintendo developed for its Wii console. "
while the story is titled "iPhone demonstrated as a Wiimote at iGames Summit" on the external story, the first paragraph says "At the iGames Summit, Shervin Pishevar of the Social Gaming Network demonstrated the use of the iPhone or iPod touch as "virtual Wii Remotes" for interacting with PC games using the company's new iFun software in the session "Building Gesture-Driven Games for the iPhone.""
Was hoping this app did what macNN said, but unfortunately, it does not. Whether this is something planned by SGN for the wii is never actually said.
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03/20, 08:54pm reply
are you sure?? cause MacNN is always so accurate with their articles and headers!
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