Wii MotionPlus co-developer demos tech in new video

[wraggster]

via joystiq

Now that E3 is over and the secret's out, middleware maker and Wii MotionPlus co-developer AiLive is openly touting what its LiveMove 2 toolset is capable of when paired with Nintendo's upcoming add-on. The above video is meant to encourage developers to adopt LiveMove 2 for creating their MotionPlus-enabled games (they can use all the help they can get, considering they didn't find out about the Wii remote upgrade until we did) but, more than anything, it's encouraging us to dream of a 1:1 lightsaber fighting game.

We bring that up because a good chunk of the video is devoted to showing one of AiLive's staff playing around with a "laser sword," demonstrating how it captures every subtle movement of the remote – the footage even shows how an on-screen "dummy" can be clocked with the sword's hilt. Impressive stuff, and we desperately hope LucasArts is taking notice.

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[wraggster]

[vicious1988]

A "lassoo"? lol. pretty cool though.

[juiceface]

looks great, much improved!

[masterchief929]

lol, i want a lassoo! i cant wait for games to come with this. it is going to make the wii so much more fun.

[Spanky69]

So where's the link?

I'm an idiot, I had flash disabled.

That looks pretty damn good to me.