Carcade uses actual scenery for scrolling shooter

This is not exactly a gadget (yet, at least) but it's too cool to pass up.

Carcade is a form of in-car entertainment designed by Berlin University of Arts students Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk - in short, an arcade game to be played by passengers as the car is running. With the help of a webcam and a laptop with camera tracking software, the buildings the car is passing by are turned into obstacles for the player-controlled spaceship, basically allowing you to play a scrolling shooter with the actual scenery as background.

Carcade

Game play is influenced by car speed and camera angle, which is both good and bad (what happens when the car stops?) but for a project the results are already impressive. Just how much? Check out the video below.






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