Interactive Video Tables at MGM

[tommEE]

I think when me and L0nDo and Extacy were in that area the bar charged 9 bucks a drink.

[TheCotMan]

I see a future application of this technology in stores. Consider cases where such a system could be tied to work with RFID tracking. A person's cart could be RFID tagged or the collection of items in their cart could be tracked through the store. When they are, "alone," an ad could appear on the floor near them and ask them questions and allow for interactive responses.

Example: Brand B is starting a promotion where they are paying stores to show ads on the floor (kind of like flash videos in ads on web pages.) When the system notices Brand C or Brand A is pulled from a shelf, or in a cart, that person could get a message: "If you buy Brand B instead of that Brand A, we will take $X.yz off the price of your purchase!" Such systems could also help to document floor traffic, to let stores sell different spaces of the store or sell advantaged locations for more money.

People have been using the various "Store Cards" to save money at the cost of some privacy. If people accept RFID chips instead of cards, then the customer purchase DB can be used with such an interactive video system to change incentives and e-coupons on a per-customer basis, depending on their shopping habits. (It worked for Amazon.com.)

Imagine: walking around a store with popup ads on the floor asking you to step on them. "Hey! How about $0.25 off Brand B!?" (NO) (30 seconds later) "Hey! How about $0.50 off Brand B?" (NO) (1 minute later) "Are you sure? How about $1.00 off?" (YES).

Imagine "Games" that kids can play with the video systems. If they are on projectors, the games can move, and draw kids over to the candy or "toy" aisles or draw the parents to follow to some other aisle.

They tape ads to the floor in stores. I see these projection systems as the next "level" in advertising.

[Added:]
Countermeasures? Video filters with wearable computers. (it was tele--video-presented at Defcon 7 by "Steven Mann" (scroll down) under the title " Inventor of the so-called "wearable computer""
The Defcon 7 link has a section on the page to two rtsp feeds of the presentation. The last 20 minutes of the presentation is interesting, but the first half is plagued with technical difficulties. (http://www.wearcam.org/)

[Second]

They had an interactive video display on the floor with fish, and if I recall correctly, a game of pong.

In the case of fish, you could step in spots and cause the fish to move away from where you stepped. A pong paddle could be controlled with your feet, by stepping, and sliding your foot to push the puck.

I've seen this as well. However, I wasn't that impressed with it. The reaction time seemed slow and laggy, and the width and placement of the foot caused the paddle, in this case, to jump around slightly. The technology is pretty cool, I just think it needs a little bit more work.

[Salem]

I can see it now... Any of those display options with the graphic changed to a Pool2Girl jpeg.

[TheCotMan]

When I went to an Expo in San Francisco, at the Moscone Center, I found they had this place across the way called the Sony Metreon.

They had an interactive video display on the floor with fish, and if I recall correctly, a game of pong.

In the case of fish, you could step in spots and cause the fish to move away from where you stepped. A pong paddle could be controlled with your feet, by stepping, and sliding your foot to push the puck.

[Deviant Ollam]

http://www.freeset.ca/hldemo_nightclub/

Anyone want to take a trip over to check these out, they look pretty cool.

wow... i want the "water" one in our house. we could all just sit there in various states of mind and gently play with it until sunrise.

[Abby_Normal]

http://www.freeset.ca/hldemo_nightclub/

Anyone want to take a trip over to check these out, they look pretty cool.