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[MacNN | The Macintosh News Network] MacNN | Surfing Google Earth with a Wii Balance Board: Surfing Google Earth with a Wii Balance Board. At the Macworld Expo, Google engineer David Phillip Oster, displayed a program that allows people to drive around the Earth’s surface in a virtual milk truck, by using the Nintendo Wii .

[Untitled] Google Earth Surfing With Wii Board - News (Wii): News: Google Earth Surfing With Wii Board(Wii) - Balance Board used to cruise virtual skies.

[ResourceShelf] ResourceShelf » Blog Archive » Surf Google Earth With Wii Balance ...: The controller transmits your movements to the Earth Surfer application using Bluetooth and allows you to maneuver a “virtual milktruck” by shifting your balance.

[Geekdad] Surf The Planet Using Google Earth And The Wii Balance Board ...: This week at MacWorld the smart folks at Google showed off a really cool homebrew project using the Wii Balance Board, the Google Earth API, and a web browser. Add.

[Untitled] Surf Google Earth On A Wii Balance Board | GEMAGA.COM: Engineer David Phillip Oster shows off Earth Surfer, an open source application that allows you to surf through Google Earth on a Wii Balance Board.

[Untitled] Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth ...: Using the Google Earth application programming interface (API), a Google engineer was able to get the Balance Board to talk to the program after decoding the Bluetooth packets being sent from the board (that’s how the device wirelessly interacts with a machine like the Nintendo Wii). The result (which you can see in the video below) allows users to move forward by leaning forward, move backwards by leaning back, etc.

[Untitled] Surf the Earth with Google and Your Wii | WebProNews: Oster used the Google Earth Browser plug-in and a javascript API, and the board transmits the person's movements to the application using Bluetooth. See it in action:

[Untitled] Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth ...: Google used its booth at Macworld this year to show off some of the things it was working on with Apple, particularly for the iPhone. But the coolest thing at their booth didn’t have much to do with Apple at all: A hacked Nintendo Wii Balance Board (from the game Wii Fit) used to control Google Earth.

[Apple Bloog] Apple Bloog » Blog Archive » Surfing Google Earth with a Wii ...: At the Macworld Expo, Google engineer David Phillip Oster, displayed a program that allows people to drive around the Earthís surface in a virtual milk truck, by using the Nintendo Wii Balance Board with the Google Earth API. By interpreting Bluetooth data transmissions from the Wii Balance Board, a user can shift their weight in order to change the movements of the truck.

[Mac Reviews] » Surfing Google Earth with a Wii Balance Board Mac Reviews ...: At the Macworld Expo, Google engineer David Phillip Oster, displayed a program that allows people to drive around the Earth

[Untitled] GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Now Google shows off Google Earth ...: 5 Responses to “Now Google shows off Google Earth balance board surfing”. Troy Says: January 9th, 2009 at 2:21 pm.

[Untitled] Surfing Google Earth with a Wii Balance Board | Sevenmac.net - The ...: A Google engineer was able to use a Javascript Google Earth API and the Google Earth Browser Plugin to allow the balance board to communicate and control the program, after he had decoded the Bluetooth data that was being wirelessly sent from the Balance Board. By doing this they were able to navigate by leaning forward and back, left and right.

[Untitled] Hang Ten: Surfing with Google Earth and Wii | Monty's Mega Marketing: The Wii Balance Board transmits the your movements to the Earth Surfer application using Bluetooth and allows you to maneuver a virtual milktruck by shifting your balance as if you were on a surfboard.

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