Hi Evan,
I already thought about adding this feature. It would help in case the Wiimote’s view to the IR pen is blocked from a certain angle (case 1), or to cover a larger area as you pointed out (case 2). It could also be used to track the location of the IR pen in 3D (case 3) like they did here, especially check out the video.
Case 1 and 2 are substantially easier to do but there are still several questions: Support only 2 or even more Wiimotes? What if the position data coming from the Wiimotes differ? * Average them? * Favor data from a particular Wiimote? * Calibrate all Wiimotes at once or one after another? * All at once isn’t possible if a Wiimote only covers part of a screen (1). * All at once would be best in case multiple Wiimotes are used to cover the same area (2).
Did I miss something? Any other thoughts?
One last problem is simply that I just have a single Wiimote. And I don’t see myself buying another one just to add this feature (that I will hardly use). Don’t get me wrong, I really like improving the Whiteboard program. But “donating” money besides my spare time to this (non-profit) project is currently not an option for me.
Uwe