I see the location sensing component of the Wii remote as one of the functions of our future palm sized media players; PDA/3G/GPS/IP/WiFi/TV.A PDA with the graphics performance delivered by the chip architecture in the Sony Playstation Portable [PSP], the user interface and connectivity of the iPhone, the personal location sensing capacity of a Nintendo Wii type remote and the Geo location sensing that GPS and 3G bring, will enable a unit with these bundled attributes ready to seamlessly absorb what is now technically available to be stremed.
Sony PSP have released a Linux based programmable interface so that Astronomers, Robotocists, climate modellers etc can pout their unit to other tasks.iPhone has already been cracked and again is being used for unintended purposes, though Apple are slower to jump onto the open source collaborative model. Nintendo
Wii [largest gaming unit sales in the US above Xbox and Playstation] seem likely to embrace the 'emergent consequences' of whatever uses the Wii remote will be put to. [Science, Gaming, Location Specific-On demand Content services]The great thing about Second Life is that it is easy to conceptualise and model how such 'live connectivity aides' work for our personal avatar, and by extension, how we of the meat space can leverage our reality via them.
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