Carcade – In-Car gaming system

Students at Berlin University of the Arts have come up with this quite outstanding new concept for keeping the kids in the back of the car happy and entertained.

They have created an in car gaming device that incorporates the world outside the car into the video game environment using a webcam strapped to the window of the car. The current demo version sees a spaceship dodging the buildings, trees and enemies to collect stars but the potential with this is endless you could have skateboarders doing tricks over the top of cars or Mario running across buildings. I think they are going to have to come up with a way for it to be projected onto the window for it to be really effective though.

I hope this will come to surface as an actual product soon as it will stop the “are we nearly there yet” comments coming from the back seat of the car.