The Obscura CueLight Pool Table, currently set up in Esquire magazine’s ultimate bachelor pad, creates stunning visual effects as pool balls move around the table. Motion sensors detect anything on or near the surface of the table and reveal a shimmering image through an overhead projector. It was created by the San Francisco-based light effects company Obscura Digital and will probably cost about $125,000 per unit when and if it is marketed.
Jim R Feliciano
I want one!!!
Flux
I can see someone messing up (or perhaps being drunk) and laying a nice $125,000 scratch on it.
not Chang
$125,000 seems pretty high for some crappy pool table with a pressure sensitive LCD(probably)screen. What will the human race do next?
Skipweasel
notChang - it's done with a projector so it'll be rather cheaper to make.
Strange choice of image. There are so many things they /could/ have done with it - but no, they descend to scantily clad women.
You could have balls of fire with explosions when they collide.
You could have tendrils of beautiful plants unfurling behind the ball with showers of seeds on impact.
A comet flying through space with planetary creation for the impact.
But no - revealing glimpses of a woman trumps the lot. How very predictable.
not Chang
meh, it would be easier to make a pressure sensitive lcd screen than a projector that has to monitor the balls movement to change the image
not Chang
bottom line: over priced unnecessary overpriced bullshit.
BikerRay
Give it ten minutes before it just became really annoying and distracting. Like the visualizations in Winamp.
ted
BikerRay: good comparison.
Yup, gotta have a picture of a scantily-clad woman to distract investors from the fact that it's a really dumb idea.
Idil
I love that there are men out there who are not into this.
Geoduck
The unnecessary cheesecake was my first thought as well. Couldn't have just put down an underwater scene or something..
db_meter
I think the "cheesecake" is there because this particular installation is in Esquires ultimate bachelor pad. May have been the magazines choice, who knows?
As for an LCD, I wouldn't want to masse on that. The whole point of doing it this way is to preserve the feel and play of the table.
And and yes it is an overpriced pointless luxury item... the 125,000 probably doesn't even include the table to play on.
Could probably do this for way less with some sort of open source software, a laptop, a video camera, and a much cheaper projector.
chang is gay
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