Nintendo And AiLive Announce New Tool For Creative And Easy Wii Development
Posted by: Aaron Lockard on October 12, 2006 4:35:33 PM (94 Reads)
'LiveMove' Tool Now Available to Wii Developers
Nintendo and AiLive Inc. announce the immediate availability of
LiveMove, a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence product, that
enables the Wii Remote to learn.
Instead of complicated
programming, developers need only take a few minutes to train the Wii
Remote by examples. LiveMove lets developers focus directly on creative
work without the burden of onerous coding requirements, helping them
quickly unleash the potential of Wii. The only limitation is the game
creator's imagination.
"The Wii coupled with AiLive LiveMove
will usher in a new era of natural game control," commented AiLive
Chairman Dr. Wei Yen." Powered by AiLive's patented Context Learning,
LiveMove will allow the game industry to move away from indirect
digital control to more natural analog control for the first time."
"In
early 2006, I challenged Dr. Wei Yen and his AI scientists to develop
AIware for the Wii Remote. When Nintendo's development teams saw
LiveMove, we instantly recognized how it would greatly increase our
ability to explore and experiment with new concepts and make our lives
easier," says Genyo Takeda, Senior Managing Director/General Manager of
Integrated Research & Development Division, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
"This revolutionary tool liberates the imaginations of game creators.
We are more than happy to share this collaborative LiveMove tool with
independent Wii software developers all over the world. From a cowboy's
lasso to a samurai's sword or a chef's cooking utensils, we just can't
wait to play the developers' new, 'unexpected' applications."
LiveMove
is currently available exclusively to Wii developers and priced at a
mass-adoption license fee of $2,500 per seat. Tutorials and demos will
be offered by AiLive.