headquarters mountain view california website official website ailive inc. formerly ikuni is a software company based in mountain view california . the company was founded in 2000 by software programmer and developer wei yen . the company has worked closely with nintendo on the development of motion sensing hardware tools and software for the wii video game console . ailive is responsible for the livemove series of products . 1 2 the system was introduced in 2006 using machine learning technology to facilitate the development of motion recognition packages for individual games . developers are able to use the software to build classifiers from provided examples of specific motions to be included in each game . the livemove system is used for development of games for the wii . 3 though initially released for professional developers of wii games the software was designed for use by independent developers as well with a goal of expanding the possibilities of the new console and wii remote interface . 1 for the year 2011 ailive s technology was used in 5 out of the top 11 best selling wii games with the wii sports resort just dance 2 and just dance 3 titles reaching 1 bestselling status over all platforms . wii motionplus edit ailive developed the wii motionplus . 4 the device added short term 3d position tracking and long term 3d orientation tracking to the wii remote motion controller . initially provided as a dongle the technology has since been integrated into all new wii remote controllers carrying the logo wii motionplus inside . 5 the wii motionplus was initially shipped in a bundle with the wii sport resort game . nintendo shipped more than 29 million units globally making it the sixth best selling game of all time . in addition to the wii motionplus device concept ailive developed and patented the motion tracking algorithms for the device and made them available to developers through the livemove 2 software . 6 7 livemove 2 edit a new version of the software livemove 2 was announced on july 7 2008 . 8 similar to the previous version livemove 2 was developed specifically to work with nintendo hardware . in this case the software is a development tool for use with the wii motionplus attachment that ailive had codeveloped . 8 on june 2 2009 following the unveiling of playstation move at electronic entertainment expo 2009 ailive announced the release of livemove 2 for playstation 3 . through a partnership between ailive and sony the livemove 2 software was made available to all registered playstation 3 developers . references edit a b brandon boyer 2006 11 20 . ailive s livemove brings ai brains to wii developers . gamasutra.com . retrieved 2008 07 30 . ailive inc. livemove white paper 2006 nintendo and ailive announce new tool for creative and easy wii development . ailive . retrieved 2006 10 12 . ailive shows off wiimotionplus . july 30 2008 . report there is a new wii remote . kotaku.com . sep 24 2010 . self contained inertial navigation system for interactive control using movable controllers . united states patent and trademark office . jan 25 2008 . livemove 2 motion recognition and tracking . ailive inc. 2008 . a b ailive reveals livemove2 for wii motionplus . gamasutra.com . 2008 07 15 . archived from the original on 30 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 07 30 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ailive & oldid 738817384 categories companies based in mountain view californiacompanies established in 2000privately held companies based in californiasoftware companies based in californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 06 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view