Wii Vitality Sensor To Come Sometime Next Year
In an investor Q&A Iwata discussed the Wii Vitality Sensor release and plans for the software. For those of you who don’t know, the Wii Vitality Sensor is a device to be used in conjunction with the Wii to measure your heart rate in games and things like WiiFit for example. As for the release, Iwata stated: ” [Nintendo] would like to deliver the actual product not too late in the year next year.”
As for the games, Iwata said: ”theme of relaxation, which is completely opposite from traditional ones, to enrich the users’ lives,” he also mentioned the idea of “measuring how horrified a player is in a horror title” as an example of the application of the sensor.
Now while I personally am not too thrilled for it, I can see how it has a great deal of potential and can open a new way of interactivity in games.
8 / 11 / 2009 2:30 am
I already use games to relax. i don't need a heart rate monitor to help with that.
8 / 11 / 2009 4:23 am
Eric, I totally agree. Games are relaxing. Nintendo just doesn't get it and they need to refocus on the hardcore gamers and not develop this kind of stuff.
5 / 25 / 2011 8:51 pm
This kind of sensor, that has something to do with medical matters, for it measures the heart rate of players in the game, has potentiometer. Medical apparatus and equipments have a little bit similarities with the features of this sensors. There are so many equipments now that are using potentiometer.
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