Surburban Giants: Wii + Digital Puppets Vs. Laser Tag

November 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · South Australia, Technology

Hi All. Lachlan from the southern tip of the country checking in…

The Wii experiments that I tipped off a few months ago have come into reality over the last few days in the form of a touring interactive event for Adelaide’s Feast Festival and in collaboration with the lovely illustrator: Jo Kerlogue. The projects basically turned into a non-laser Wii solution to Laser Tag - effectively liberating the restrictions placed on Lasers and thus Laser Tag in our Laser impoverished country.

What’s more - with the Wii you have buttons!!!!! Which brings me to the coolest element of it - the creation of massive digital puppets that crawl across the wall under your control (seen above in Kevin’s territory marking ritual). You can not only move and manipulate them - but also change their appearance in a plethora of different permeations to create weird and wacky characters.

But enough talk! Let’s see it in action! Well I’m still kind of in the heat of it all at the moment - there’s another event tonight in Unley followed by another next Thursday. And I’ll be putting video up asap… but for the moment - here’s a flyer and a couple of images from a under developed version at the FEAST Festival Opening (images thanks to Heath Britton and support thanks to Carclew, Adelaide City Council, Unley City Council and Mt. Barker City Council):

Happy attractive people…

Pamela just got BIGGER!


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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Agent Scott // Nov 23, 2008 at 8:54 am

    Hmmm… can you provide more technical details?

  • 2 Shakthi // Dec 9, 2008 at 10:00 pm

    Nice work Lachlan - looking forward to seeing the video

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