Motion Sensor = Tilt Sensor

[cyberprince]

Remember tilt sensors available for some gaming machines. Well Amit Singh of Kernelthread.com offers another use for the sudden motion sensors of the new powerbooks. On this page on his site he discusses how he was able to patch into the the six-axis motion sensor in the new Apple Powerbooks and was able to develop a program that rotates the windows based on the orientation of the laptop to the ground.

Here are some other uses:
• Panning across large maps (consider Google Maps: you slightly tilt the PowerBook backwards to go North, tilt it slightly to the left to go East, and so on)
• vertical and horizontal scrolling in general, say, in a web browser
• Input for games (for example, a flight simulator)

[cyberprince]

A company called Balooba has released a new game called Bubblegym which is the first tilt-sensitive game to take advantage of the Sudden Motion Sensor in 2005 PowerBooks. The game lets you control objects on the screen by simply tilting your PowerBook (or using arrow keys on older machines).

[Carlo]

Originally posted by cyberprince
A company called Balooba has released a new game called Bubblegym which is the first tilt-sensitive game to take advantage of the Sudden Motion Sensor in 2005 PowerBooks. The game lets you control objects on the screen by simply tilting your PowerBook (or using arrow keys on older machines).

This was reported previously.