Real Virtual Skater: kickflip and nollie with the Wiimote

by David Hinkle on Jan 22nd 2009 11:48AM

What you see in the video above is Real Virtual Skater, a hack which utilizes the Wiimote's guts in a small box attached to the bottom of a skateboard. As you can imagine, it lets you play as if you're actually skateboarding. The game the tech is being demonstrated on is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Our only concern is if anyone actually tried doing this in their living room, they'd break a few lamps. And a couple of tables. And the television.

Head past the break for the video.

[Via Engadget]

Enjoy this kind of thing? Then you'll definitely get a kick out of our Revolutionary feature, where the extremely talented Mike Sylvester tinkers around with all kinds of things. Aside from making his own homemade Balance Board, he helped us train with the Wii Wheel and also showed us what is really crappy about our favorite console.

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Tags: bluetooth, hack, real-virtual-skater, skateboard, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-pro-skater, wiimote

Reader Comments (2)

Err....

Can't the Wii Balance Board be enough?

It's VERY hard to see ANYTHING on this video, i don't see him skate, and don't see any connection between things happening on the screen and him moving.
This vid sucks, and gadjet sucks too, totally useless and unplayable =)