June 18, 2004
Timeplay
This company gave a presentation at ICT today looking for connections between their IP and ICT research, and I kept thinking: "Why aren't they presenting at the IMD???" I'm sure they're old news to some. Their chief creative officer, Jon Snoddy (of Imagineernig fame and linked with Randy Pausch) gave the presentation and was cool. (Did you know him Andrew?)
Their design is to have a gameboy like device in the back of each theater chair connected wirelessly to a main server. You slide your credit card on the side of the device to play $1-2 games before the movie, $5-8 for 20 minutes after the movie, and eventually long format theater game experiences. Lot’s of similarities with the gameboy DS interface. Mutlitudes of game possibilities were talked about, including some interesting cooperative play ideas, and allowing a winner in the audience 15 minutes of silver screen fame.
They're getting close to an alpha testing phase, and seemed interested in talking with us about content ideas. I was impressed, and think they'd be great presenters for our division.
Posted by brad at June 18, 2004 06:09 PMComments
YES, Jon is a friend, mentor, and great guy! He and I worked together to develop GameWorks and VR arcade for Imagineering. I'm familiar with his new endeavors...
Posted by: andrew at June 24, 2004 09:28 AM
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