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The Wii Remote, [a] colloquially known as the Wiimote, is the primary game controller for Nintendo's Wii home video game console.An essential capability of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via motion sensing, gesture recognition, and pointing using an accelerometer and optical sensor technology.
The Wii Remote Bluetooth protocol can be implemented on other devices, including cell phones. Two students demonstrated this concept by creating a driver software that has the capability to connect the Wii Remote to a Symbian OS smartphone.
In October 2006, at the Luxembourgish Hack.lu Security Conference, Kevin Finistere and Thierry Zoller demonstrated and released a remote root shell via Bluetooth on Mac OS X v10.3.9 and v10.4. They also demonstrated the first Bluetooth PIN and Linkkeys cracker, which is based on the research of Wool and Shaked. [153]
The Wii Remote connects to the Wii via Bluetooth with an approximate 30 feet (9.1 m) range, [96] communicating the sensor and control information to the console unit. The Wii Remote includes an internal speaker and a rumble pack that can be triggered by a game to provide feedback directly to the player's hand. [93]
PlayStation 3 controllers and Wii remotes also use Bluetooth HID. Bluetooth HID is a lightweight wrapper of the human interface device protocol defined for USB . The use of the HID protocol simplifies host implementation (when supported by host operating systems ) by re-use of some of the existing support for USB HID in order to support also ...
The Wii Remote has a large "A" button in the front, and a curved "B" button in the back resembling a trigger. Under the "A" button is a plus and minus, and at the bottom of the remote is a "1" and "2" buttons. In the middle of the Wii Remote, between the plus and minus button is a small "home" button that resembling a home/house.
DarwiinRemote is an application for Mac OS X v10.4 or above which allows Wii Remote to fully control applications on a Mac. The software includes a desktop application and a developers' framework, allowing for additional functionality. To use the software, the computer must have Bluetooth enabled.
The Wand is a line of game controllers released by Nyko as third-party alternatives to the official Nintendo Wii Remote.The original Wand duplicated the functionality of the Wii Remote, while the updated Wand+ added internal replication of the Wii MotionPlus for more advanced motion sensing, similar to Nintendo's later Wii Remote Plus.