For my 3rd etude I will explore different ways you can interact with applications. Here I will focus my work on Google Earth, but will also look into other applications like games, hardware(Nintendo Wii)etc. The reason for this etude is that I think it’s important to have a an easy and simple interaction with the application you use, and I will explore different interfaces and look into different platforms that use interesting and new form of interfaces.
I think the nintendo Wii remote is a really interesting device, and a lot of people have hacked to to make it work for various applications. I will try researching about using it for Google Earth. People have already done this, so let me first show a video of how this guy is actually controlling Google Earth with a Wii remote:
After doing some digging, I found out that you need a programme called GlovePIE which is a free programme created by some people that are interested in controlling a computer/programmes with various devices.
After having watched that video with the person controlling Google Earth with the Wii remote, it doesn’t seem that intuitive..so I tried with my Wacom pen tablet instead. And I must admit is really is quite easy and fun to control Google Earth with this device. You just move the pen around to drag the earth and move it around. I click the button on the pen and do a up or down motion, which is currently configured as a right-click, to either zoom in or out depending on the movement of the pen(up or down).
