Streetpong [video]
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Streetpong [video]
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Re: Streetpong [video]
#2This is an 'urban interaction' installation, where two people waiting on opposite sides of a pedestrian crossing can play each other in a game of pong.
Pretty cool :)
I wonder what they are using for communicating between the two touch screens on each side of the road. It almost looks like the touch screens are large mobile phones.
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#3The fact that you eventually meet your opponent when the light goes green is awesome.
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#4Interesting idea, saw this make the rounds a little bit ago.
The installation in the video is not real, but because of the popularity of the video, they're currently working on a physical prototype.
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#5This is an 'urban interaction' installation, where two people waiting on opposite sides of a pedestrian crossing can play each other in a game of pong. Pretty cool :) I wonder what they are using for communicating between the two touch screens on each side of the road. It almost looks like the touch screens are large mobile phones.
Nothing at all.
It's a concept created using VFX[1].
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/10/german-crosswalk-lets-opp...
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#6This video is CGI - at the point it was filmed, it was just a concept, but it's had a positive reaction and so it's actually been installed.
Source: translation of http://vimeo.com/48514003
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#7Germany has a whole different level of first-world problems: "Hmm what was my biggest annoyance today? ... I was bored while standing at the traffic lights"
:)
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#8Hmm, looks fake to me, the image/text is wobbling differently than the camera.
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#9Germany has a whole different level of first-world problems: "Hmm what was my biggest annoyance today? ... I was bored while standing at the traffic lights" :)
Yes, because we are actually stopping at them!
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#10If thy don't call this Ample/Ampel Time then this is not a world I want to live in.
(Ampel being the German for traffic light)