sensor bar......wow

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#1 lone_wolf815
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ok, i was playing wii sports and i wanted to see what would happen if i unplugged the sensor bar i unplugged it while playing tennis while on the home menu, the i pressed the home button to take it off and i realized there wasnt a hand that said 1 one it but it still went back to tennis. The ball was coming to me and i swung the wiimote and it still worked, i plugged in the sensor bar again  and on the home menu the hand xcame back,

so is the sensor bar that gets the sensing or wii, just wondering

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#2 Caybrown
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was there any candles lit?
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#3 T3H_1337_N1NJ4
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Nope, the sensor bar is only used for the pointer! When you play tennis or the other sports, that function is not used, and, as for such, you don't need the sensor bar!
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#4 Da-Chicken
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The sensor bar does nothing more than provide an infrared field around the TV. This is only required for the Wiimote to detect where exactly it's pointing. So, the sensor bar is only necessary for games that utilize the pointing functionality of the Wii. Everything else is done without it.
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#5 lone_wolf815
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no candles, so the wii nows if i the wiimote moves
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#6 Benno2000
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All the sensor bar does is produce two Infra red points to help the wii remote position itself in relation to your Tv, so with out a sensor bar, or equivelent IR emitting points, the wii doesnt 'know' where you tv is. Other than that the wii doesnt need the sensor bar, like you said in tennis, it will still work fine,because the wii is only using information from the motion sensors in the remote.

i probably didn't word that particularly well, but i hope you see what i'm getting at.
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#7 tacoeatingmonky
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The sensor bar is nothing more than an IR LED array that the Wiimote uses as a tracking point.
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#8 KJAX90
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I guess this means that the Wii Sports games only use the accelerometer...
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#9 foola12
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Thers like 3 different motion sensing this, there like the axcelormeter (for like the wii mote to notice that ur chaking it i think) and then thers the gyrometer (that knows it your twisting the wiimote or something) and then the ir lights that know where your position is and where you are pointing at the screen.. im not sure about this but some guy posted about this along time ago...