Exclaim!’s Dino DiGiulio has written an article contemplating the idea that the Wii is the gateway console to a future of virtual reality as entertainment. It’s a concept that’s been played around with in the past, but perished at the hands of too many failed attempts. Now, though, the Wii brings at least the very beginnings of a working VR schema for companies to build upon in the future. Check out the excerpt below.

Now, almost ten years later, the underpowered underdog of videogames, the Nintendo Wii, has come to free us from the cave of harsh reality and take us into the virtual light. Like the way that perspective changed painting, the Wii’s controller, the Wiimote, represents a dramatic dimensional shift. The Wiimote is not simply thumbed like traditional controllers — it’s swung, spun and stabbed. It operates in space with gestures and movements that can be exact duplicates of their real world equivalent. All that videogames and computers have ever known is a two-axis world: up-down and left-right. The Wii has simply, radically introduced a third: forward-back.

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