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So, if you’re an IBMer, and you’re in the know about IBM’s Hackday events, you’d know that the results were recently posted.  And the winner in the Virtual Worlds/Augmented reality category was none other than my Project WiiSpark application.  Thanks to Peter Yim, my colleague, for all of his work contributing to the project.  And, thanks to all those who voted.  Since this is an internal IBM event, there’s not much I can show about the other winners.   However, we here at IBM developerWorks are planning to to a full-on YouTube video explaining the app, and the technologies used to pull it off.

Again, thanks to everyone for participating!

The above video is a small screencast of my IBM WiiSpark application. This is the application that I created, using ActionScript3, Papervision3d, and the WiiFlash API. As you can see, it starts out as a rotating cube, but after entering in a keyword search, it goes out and retrieves thumbnail pages of the search results from IBM developerWorks. I figured since I work for them, I’d try to make this sample application relevant (*smile*).

You can’t see this on the video itself, but the movement of the cube is being controlled by a Wiimote that is connected to my PC via Bluetooth, which gives us a pretty good inidication that the Wiimote can certainly be used as an alternative input device. I’m sure you may have seen many other Wiimote device applications, and this was just my entry into the “sweepstakes”.

Maybe this is useful from a broader perspective though- should I open source this code? Leave me a comment, and let me know what you think.

Oh one last note, I ended up entering this application in as my entry for IBM’s Hackday event last month.  Haven’t heard about any results from that event, but I’ll keep you posted!