Table Tennis for Three - Sports over a Distance

Table Tennis for Three is a table tennis-like game with real paddles and balls that three players can play together although geographically apart. The players in this "Sports over a Distance" game use an Exertion Interface to create a sense of social connectedness between each other, while communicating through an augmented videoconference. Table Tennis for Three aims to achieve similar benefits known from collocated table tennis such as exercise, enjoyment and bringing people together to socialize.

More exertion games at http://exertioninterfaces.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sport
• network
• game
• ping-pong
• videoconference
• media
• sensors
• exertion
• interface
• exergame
• exergaming
• exertainment

[mazza23]

im guess you have already considered it but t would be to hard ?

[floydmueller]

The ball machine would also have to move in 2D space perpendicular to the table, however, the more important point of this design was to show that this might not be necessary: designing for social exertion can nevertheless facilitate a social experience without realistic force-feedback, etc.

Thanks for the comment!

[vageta9281984]

For Beginners Only.

[gummidude123]

cool!

[mazza23]

its prety cool, however do u think its possible to sync a tt ball machine and have the pace and spin read by your sensors and have the tt robot to send back a ball of similar speed and spin as the previous ball, u guys seem genious so anything might be possible. wb

[spifo]

That's original :)

Got nothing to do with the ping-pong gameplay.

But it's original :)