Modern kids have it made. No more boring license plate games or playing Punch Buggy when today's tech-savvy tots and teens can choose from rear-seat video systems, video games and Sirius Backseat TV . Now three students at Berlin University of the Arts have come up with a way to turn the world outside of a car into a video game using a laptop and a webcam. The webcam projects buildings, trees and other objects outside the car window onto a computer screen, and the player has to steer a "ship" around the obstacles on the screen without crashing into them. The faster the speed of the car, the faster the ship flies and the more difficult it is to keep from crashing. Check out a video of the students test driving a prototype of the video game concept on the street. And, fortunately, it's the passenger playing. ...
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Modern kids have it made. No more boring license plate games or playing Punch Buggy when today's tech-savvy tots and teens can choose from rear-seat video systems, video games and Sirius Backseat TV . Now three students at Berlin University of the Arts have come up with a way to turn the world outside of a car into a video game using a laptop and a webcam. The webcam projects buildings, trees and other objects outside the car window onto a computer screen, and the player has to steer a "ship" around the obstacles on the screen without crashing into them. The faster the speed of the car, the faster the ship flies and the more difficult it is to keep from crashing. Check out a video of the students test driving a prototype of the video game concept on the street. And, fortunately, it's the passenger playing. ...