Watch ‘Super Mario Bros’ as an 8-player, 360-degree game
When researchers from ETH Zurich and Disney get together, they tend to conjure up fascinating creations, such as Beachbot — a turtle-shaped robot that draws in the sand. This time, they’ve turned Super Mario Bros. into a huge eight-player game for a one-night event at a Swiss night club that happened to have a 360-degree projection system. According to Ars Technica, the team used an Arduino-based multiplexer in order to connect eight controllers to an unsullied Nintendo Entertainment System. Since they wanted a supersized retro gaming experience, they fed the video output to an upscaler, and then to a computer with custom software that can stitch frames into panoramas.
Via: Atmel, Ars Technica
Source: ETH Zurich
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