1. A system for determining a position of a pointing device and a location to where the pointing device is directed, the system comprising: one or more infrared light emitting diodes (LEDs); a control system coupled to the one or more LEDs, the control system capable of causing the one or more LEDs to emit infrared light; one or more cameras, capable of capturing one or more frames at substantially the same time as the one or more LEDs are caused to emit the infrared light, at least one of the one or more frames recording the existence of the emission of the infrared light; a processing system, capable of analyzing the one or more frames to determine the position of the pointing device and the location to where the pointing device is directed; and a communication interface, capable of transmitting a message across a transmission medium to a receiving unit, the message including data that can be used to determine the position of the pointing device and the location to where the pointing device is directed, which the receiving unit can use to manipulate the object displayed on the display screen.