My friend and I are college students and he decided to bring his wii, but we forgot the sensor bar. So we searched it up and found a video of people using candles, unfortunately we can’t have flames. So we looked up more videos and found the remote trick and it worked!
I was watching some videos on youtube and they said that you can use candles instead of the sensor bar is this true?
You can use candles in place of a Sensor Bar to point with the Wii-Mote. Try it out yourself!
Instead of waiting for a retail wireless sensor bar, or hacking your own, use two candles spaced several inches apart to control your Wii!
I broke my Wii sensor bar a couple weeks ago and I don’t want to use candles or LED lights. Is there any way I can get a replacement Wii sensor bar? Preferably free?
Quick note: Yes, this is the ORIGINAL Sensor Bar candle video. After this was posted, many others followed suit, including Joystiq.com. IGN.com even made several references to it in their articles an blogs, and someone referenced it in Wikipedia. Many have heard that the Wii’s Sensor Bar does not really sense anything at all but that the remote does all the detection sort of like a monochrome digital camera. What many do not realize is that the Sensor Bar is just two sets of IR leds that emit just enough light to be detected by the remote for triangulation. Knowing this, I decided to do an experiment. I turned out all the lights in my living room and lit two candles about three feet apart beneath my projector screen, seeing as they emit several wavelengths of light, both visible and beyond. Surprisingly it worked atleast as well as Sensor Bar when directly in front of the screen (but worse far to the left or right) because of the combination of increased IR light output and increased distance. Any two IR sources will potentially work in this manner (including two TV/DVD remotes with any buttons held). The video was recorded on a Cingular 8125 set to “cool” (bluescale) to capture enough light. I wish I could’ve used a higher-quality capture method, but the low light made it difficult. At the beginning of the video, I hold up the pack-in sensor bar to show that it is not plugged into the Wii (since it’s tough to tell in the very low light of the room). I then grab the Wii …