Posts tagged OpticalSensor 
'Wii' stumped: the mystery of the optical sensor
Over at the San Jose Mercury News, Dean Takahashi poses an interesting question: "what does the [Wii's] optical sensor do?" The more appropriate question would be: why is the optical senor necessary? As Takahashi notes, the Wiimote's motion-sensing chip detects x-, y- and z-axis movements, along wit...
