Update: Audience pong, it really works (video)
rzwitserloot posted in me, programming on February 28th, 2006
Tried it today, and it actually works. I’ve taped the event. I think the video requires quicktime 7. I really didn’t expect it would work this well. The only significant change I’ve made between this tape and my thesis defense tomorrow is that I’ve laminated the coloured paper. Hopefully the glossy nature won’t interfere.
Audience Pong (45 second fragment, QT7, 3MB).

February 28th, 2006 at 21:33
s/audiance/audience
Otherwise fun movie, can’t wait to try it tomorrow.
February 28th, 2006 at 23:59
this was so much fun, movie really doesn’t show it. Maybe we should try to record it again tommorow but better?
March 1st, 2006 at 11:56
I’m not sure if that’s a good idea, cris. Would you like to be recorded? How about we record it properly next MKT2 intro lecture? By the way, the software is called ‘audiance’, alper.
Why? Dunno!
June 4th, 2006 at 15:45
[…] Today we tried to play a game of pong with an audience of 30 second year students. Reinier came up with the idea of having an audience play pong by using coloured A4 sheets as triggers for a webcam. One half of the audience controlled the green paddle with green sheets, the other half the red paddle with red sheets. Let’s see what happens (video). […]