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"RF Remote". I assume it functions like a Wii remote -- you can tip it and shake it and such. Wouldn't work quite as well for games that allow "real" gravity t
by SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
"RF Remote". I assume it functions like a Wii remote -- you can tip it and shake it and such.
Wouldn't work quite as well for games that allow "real" gravity to affect objects on the screen, but it would be awesome for, e.g., racing games where you tip to steer. Honestly I'm not a big fan of tipping the device to steer when the UI otherwise stays constant to the screen, so this would be an improvement for such games.
- eridius 15y agoHow do you tip and shake a device that's plugged into the back of your TV?
- SomeCallMeTim 15y ago"RF Remote" is short for "Radio Frequency Remote Control." So you're tipping and shaking the remote control. I thought the term would be clear, but apparently not. A quick search of that term gets you to the correct results, though. [1] "RF" is specified to let you know it's not an infrared remote, so tipping it won't end up sending the "beam" in the wrong direction, and it will (probably) be more reliable in general than an IR remote would be. Certainly the range should be longer. [1] http://duckduckgo.com/?q=rf+remote http://duckduckgo.com/?q=rf+remote
- eridius 15y agoI know what an rf remote is, but this is what the article says: > The simply-titled HDMI Dongle is effectively an entire system on a chip dongle (and yeah, it looks a lot like Roku's Streaming Stick), boasting a Cortex-A9, between 256MB and 1GB of RAM, inbuilt WiFi / Bluetooth, an NFC module and even an accelerometer. It explicitly states that the HDMI Dongle contains an accelerometer. It sounds likely at this point that the article is just flat-out wrong, but that's clearly what it states.