If you are hoping to get your hands on the new Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor which was announced quite some time ago and was designed to help you monitor your fitness levels using the Nintendo Wii console.
You might be disappointed to learn that Nintendo has now pulled the plug on their Wii Vitality Sensor and will not be taking it to market as first announced. The reason Nintendo has stopped development of their Wii Vitality Sensor is due to unreliable readings says the official press release that was released this week to explain the closure of their Wii Vitality Sensor development. You can read more about Nintendo’s reasons in the press release snippets after the jump.
“The Wii Vitality Sensor was under development as an accessory for Wii. We thought it would be interesting to understand how the human autonomic nerve functions while using the Wii Vitality Sensor, and we did develop trial software and showed the media some of its features. We pushed forward its development on the academic assumption that by observing the wave patterns of the human pulse, we could quantify how tense or relaxed a person is, or to be more specific, how much the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves work as functions of the autonomic nerve. However, after a large-scale test of a prototype inside the company, we found out that for some people the sensor did not work as expected. We wondered if we should commercialize a product which works as expected for 90 people out of 100, but not so for the other 10 people. Though I am sorry that we did not give any specific updates after this product’s initial announcement, I would say that knowing that a product has a problem we should not launch it for the sole reason that we have already announced it.
The Wii Vitality Sensor is an interesting device, and we did various experiments to see what is possible when it was combined with a video game. But, as a result, we have not been able to launch it as a commercial product because we could not get it to work as we expected and it was of narrower application than we had originally thought. We would like to launch it into the market if technology advancements enable 999 of 1,000 people to use it without any problems, not only 90 out of 100 people. I actually think that it must be 1,000 of 1,000 people, but (since we use the living body signal with individual differences) it is a little bit of a stretch to make it applicable to every single person.”
Source: Hot Hardware : Nintendo
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