Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Mixed Feelings
A new kind of theater experience was recently unveiled to a Spiderman 3 audience. It was an interactive video game that was projected on the screen before the previews started. A montion sensor at the front of the theater used the audience's movements to control a paddle for a Breakout type game. Watch the video to see how it turned out.
At first, this sounded really cool. But I can imagine that if it spreads to more theaters, you're going to have some control freaks getting a little bent out of shape if people aren't playing along just right. Those of us that grew up with Atari and Intellivision still remember how frustrating unresponsive controllers can be.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
I am waiting for jeff's comment...we like people to be still and quiet in movie theaters! Would this be fun or a nightmare for him???
NIGHTMARE!! Definitely nightmare! The end of the video said it was at "The Bridge" theater in Philadelphia, that is were I saw SM3, thank goodness that wasn't there then. I don't think we need to get the audience all riled up right before the movie, not a good idea. Wait till some poor guy gets up to go get popcorn and messes up the game, he will be beaten. I repeat, for those of you who who haven't already picked up on the theme here, THIS is a BAD idea.
hee hee hee hee hee hee haa ha ha ha haa hha ahhh.
I wonder how you could play Tetris with this?
Halo or a game like Doom would be interesting.
The next step should be to make different sections of the audience responsible for different button actions. Take Mario World as an example; One section would control direction, one section would control jump and another could do the fireball and the squatting to go down pipes.
Talk about "pandelerium".
Post a Comment