*This looks more like a dedicated Augmented Reality device than any we've seen to date. Most AR gets shoehorned into form factors never designed for 3d interaction. This oddly named Wii U gizmo has got grips, buttons, a stylus, it's ruggedized, it's meant to be slung around in active situations... but can it Google Map?
Nintendo Crashes The Tablet World With A Game-Changing Entrance
BY GREGORY FERENSTEIN Tue Jun 7, 2011
Body-enveloping 3-D virtual environments come to everyone's living room with Nintendo's new Wii U controller....
*Sales pitch at trade show: