NASCAR Head Games

written by John Chow on January 17, 2007

This video was taken in Vegas during our trip to the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show. We’re still not sure exactly what it was, or if we were doing it correctly. Never the less, it sure was a lot of fun! Towards the end of the video, Sarah started laughing too hard and couldn’t hold the camera steady.

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{ 18 comments }

Jane January 17, 2007 at 5:49 pm

Looks like you had them all beat!!! LOL…That game must have had some high tech sensors coming from the projector.

Nomar January 17, 2007 at 11:41 pm: Indeed !! NICE

Nick Witkoski January 17, 2007 at 6:03 pm

thats pretty neat, im sure they could develop some really neat games with that technology. i dont think i would be able to play that for too long though, or at least not while i was sober…

Alexei January 17, 2007 at 6:47 pm

LOL! You guys are too funny!

Michael Kwan January 17, 2007 at 6:49 pm

Okay, I have no idea what I just saw. LOL. How exactly do the controls work? It’s like the EyeToy on crack.

John Chow January 17, 2007 at 7:05 pm

We still haven’t figure it out how it works. At least I didn’t hurt my head.

HMTKSteve January 18, 2007 at 6:27 am

How do you find this stuff? Or does it find you?

John Chow January 18, 2007 at 10:49 am: This one kinda found us.

Yan January 17, 2007 at 7:06 pm

We have those in malls in Chicago. I suppose the sensors are in the screen and react to the shadow by transmitting the signal back to the computer program that feeds the projector.

Jane January 17, 2007 at 7:18 pm

I see you changed your comment format. I like the organization and the response feature…It’ll be a lot easier to follow who is responding to what comment.

John Chow January 17, 2007 at 7:22 pm: Yes I just wrote a blog post about it: http://www.johnchow.com/threading-the-comments/

Ryan January 17, 2007 at 7:25 pm

That’s awesome! I need one of those at my house. By the looks of it I don’t think it’s used for more than just a good laugh.

Alex Becker January 17, 2007 at 8:47 pm

Yea this is so cool. I saw this in a movie theater I went to. The projector was on the ceiling pointing to the floor. It was really cool. The game was different but it was really sweet.

Raghu January 18, 2007 at 1:50 am