{"id":3857,"date":"2009-12-31T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/apple-still-thinking-about-wiimote-like-magic-wand-controller-apple\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T12:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:07:17","slug":"apple-still-thinking-about-wiimote-like-magic-wand-controller-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/apple-still-thinking-about-wiimote-like-magic-wand-controller-apple.php","title":{"rendered":"Apple Still Thinking About Wiimote-Like Magic Wand Controller [Apple]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems like Apple is not giving up on alternative control methods: They have just updated their March Wiimote-like controller patent<\/a>, so that means they may still working on it. Or maybe not.<\/p>

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A remote wand for controlling the operations of a media system is provided. The wand may be operative to control the movement of a cursor displayed on screen by the position and orientation at which the wand is held. As the user moves the wand, the on-screen cursor may move. The user may use the wand to control a plurality of operations and applications that may be available from the media system, including for example zoom operations, a keyboard application, an image application, an illustration application, and a media application.<\/p><\/blockquote>

I wish they fixed Apple TV<\/a> instead, so it could play any<\/i> media, and not only iTunes-branded stuff. Actually, if I were Apple, I will forget about wands and license Microsoft Natal<\/a> to integrate it in all their computers, especially the iMac. [MacRumors<\/a>]<\/p>

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