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Developing for Nintendo Wii just got a whole lot easier. Nintendo and AiLive have teamed up to create LiveMove, an Artificial Intelligence product that teaches the Wii controller to learn with simple gestures. The product will be available immediately and the mass-adoption license fee is $2,500 per seat.

“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.”

Source: AiLive