慣性傳感將決定未來游戲控制器的工作方式

　　一旦淪為航空航天應用，如高度和航向參考系統，慣性傳感器，經常發現在高度集成的慣性測量單元（IMU），結合陀螺儀，加速度計，磁力計和壓力傳感器都是在高級的游戲和工業應用，尋找新的生活，如機器人和自動化系統。

　　慣性傳感器檢測和測量加速度，傾斜，沖擊，振動，旋轉和多自由度（DOF）運動。直到最近，他們的主要用途是在慣性導航系統（INS）作為導航技術，其中加速度計和陀螺儀所提供的測量跟蹤的對象的位置和方向相對于一個已知的起始點，方向和速度。它們被應用于飛機、戰術和戰略導彈、宇宙飛船、潛艇和艦船等大型應用中。

　　Advances in MEMS technology， however， have enabled manufacture of small INS units， opening up their use in many more applications， including those involving motion capture. Gesture-recognition interfaces are a good example. Defined gestures， such as taps， double-taps， or shakes， allow users to activate different features or adjust the mode of operation of a game controller. In industry， gesture recognition also makes devices more usable where physical buttons and switches would be difficult to manipulate. Button-free designs can also reduce overall system cost in addition to improving the durability of end products， such as underwater cameras， where the opening surrounding a button would let water seep into the camera body.