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Robert J. Cordingley

A new use for the Stephen's sandtable technology?

Apart from a bunch of neat stuff, see The Mix Reality Goban at:

http://www.dcexpo.jp/en/

At the Digital Contents Expo 2010 in Tokyo – which goes through October 17 – a man plays go as the images of the pieces are placed and moved by a projector with motion-sensitive camera sensors.

I want one!!! What would it take?

Thanks
Robert
PS It doesn't look like a real game of Go in the image above. R
PPS Goban = Go Board see santafegoclub.org for more info. R

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Steve Smith

Re: A new use for the Stephen's sandtable technology?

Ambient Pixel, LLC (formalization of AnySurface(tm) technology ala SimTable(tm) ) needs more people to pursue more vertical markets (e.g. the GO market, or board games, or ...) any GO enthusiasts ready to go?

Is there a (paid) market?

Imagine on step better than the image below and imagine the recognition of the "hand" and remove it real-time from the projection.

Apart from a bunch of neat stuff, see The Mix Reality Goban at:

http://www.dcexpo.jp/en/

At the Digital Contents Expo 2010 in Tokyo – which goes through October 17 – a man plays go as the images of the pieces are placed and moved by a projector with motion-sensitive camera sensors.

I want one!!! What would it take?

Thanks
Robert
PS It doesn't look like a real game of Go in the image above. R
PPS Goban = Go Board see santafegoclub.org for more info. R
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Robert J. Cordingley

Re: A new use for the Stephen's sandtable technology?

Ok, so what would be the value proposition (VP) in such a device? If there's no VP there's no way to do the marketing. With the Kindle you can have thousands of books with you in just a few ounces of hardware - a big improvement in that sense.

For the board games market you could have hundreds of board games in one device with no increase in storage space, no pieces to lose and automated scoring. But perhaps board games is too narrow and not all board games would work; only the full disclosure ones (i.e. not Scrabble - but Risk and Monopoly are ok). What else could you use the table metaphor for? Model railroads? Ouija boards? SimCity? Graphic design?

Next, if can you get the price down to that of an iPad...

Thanks Robert
PS Should I be copyrighting this stuff or something? R

On 10/14/10 8:56 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

Ambient Pixel, LLC (formalization of AnySurface(tm) technology ala SimTable(tm) ) needs more people to pursue more vertical markets (e.g. the GO market, or board games, or ...) any GO enthusiasts ready to go?

Is there a (paid) market?

Imagine on step better than the image below and imagine the recognition of the "hand" and remove it real-time from the projection.
Apart from a bunch of neat stuff, see The Mix Reality Goban at:

http://www.dcexpo.jp/en/

At the Digital Contents Expo 2010 in Tokyo – which goes through October 17 – a man plays go as the images of the pieces are placed and moved by a projector with motion-sensitive camera sensors.

I want one!!! What would it take?

Thanks
Robert
PS It doesn't look like a real game of Go in the image above. R
PPS Goban = Go Board see santafegoclub.org for more info. R
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Carl Tollander

Re: A new use for the Stephen's sandtable technology?

In reply to this post by Steve Smith

Maybe instrument the stones? There is something satisfying about their physicality. I can see using the projection for a remote game, but I want to use 'real' stones on my side of the virtual world. Some network interface through the board where they could talk to their neighbors, perhaps have some (very) rudimentary understanding of what was going on. Maybe project little faces on them, if they were in some jeopardy they'd look upset, maybe vibrate or something, etc.

Ok, going to go have weird dreams now.

On 10/14/10 8:56 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

Ambient Pixel, LLC (formalization of AnySurface(tm) technology ala SimTable(tm) ) needs more people to pursue more vertical markets (e.g. the GO market, or board games, or ...) any GO enthusiasts ready to go?

Is there a (paid) market?

Imagine on step better than the image below and imagine the recognition of the "hand" and remove it real-time from the projection.
Apart from a bunch of neat stuff, see The Mix Reality Goban at:

http://www.dcexpo.jp/en/

At the Digital Contents Expo 2010 in Tokyo – which goes through October 17 – a man plays go as the images of the pieces are placed and moved by a projector with motion-sensitive camera sensors.

I want one!!! What would it take?

Thanks
Robert
PS It doesn't look like a real game of Go in the image above. R
PPS Goban = Go Board see santafegoclub.org for more info. R
  
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