{"id":353,"date":"2006-08-26T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2006-11-06T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T10:25:25","slug":"games-convention-part-i-pongmythos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Games Convention part I &#8211; pong.mythos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/Topong1.jpg\" alt=\"Topong1.jpg\"\/><img id=\"image356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/Topong3.JPG\" alt=\"Topong3.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From 24.8-27.8.2006 there is the socalled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gc-germany.de\/\">Games Convention (GC) <\/a> in the City of Leipzig. The games convention is &#8211; next to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tokyo_Game_Show\">Tokyo Game Show<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_Entertainment_Expo\">E3<\/a> (which got small this year) &#8211; the biggest fair for computer games in the world. For this years fair there have been already now more than 150 000 visitors. Part of the GC was the exhibition pong.mythos, which was generously placed right behing the XBox 360s booth. pong.mythos is an exhibition around the game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pong\">pong<\/a>, which serves as a central example in the development of computer games. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytar.de\/art\/pong\/\">daytars ToPong<\/a> has an extra stand at the pong.mythos exhibition (see image above) and we hope that all 170 000 visitors or so come to play! :=0.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img id=\"image357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/BBCI.JPG\" alt=\"BBCI.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ToPong is situated in the pong.science section right next to the other Berlin science pong which is a pong game by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ida.first.fraunhofer.de\/bbci\/index_en.html\">Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI)<\/a>. The BBCI is a collaboration between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.first.fraunhofer.de\/\">Fraunhofer institute FIRST<\/a> and the Department for Neurology at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charit%C3%A9\">Charit\u00e9<\/a>. It is a project which investigates direct human-computer interaction, by using cerebral electric activity for steering a computer. So it is possible to play pong just with your brain via an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroencephalography\">EEG<\/a>. In the exhibition the experiment was however demonstrated with a display dummy, since the calibration alone takes already half an hour.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/mythos.JPG\" alt=\"mythos.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/history.JPG\" alt=\"history.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">The history of pong (inventor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=216\">Ralph H. Baer<\/a> is patron of pong.mythos)\n <\/div>\n<p>Besides the science part pong.mythos had a pong.history, pong.art and finally a category for the rest- a pong.pop section. I had not enough batteries with me so I couldn&#8217;t take tons of pictures and hence some pictures which didn&#8217;t come out good enough are lost for this blog. In particular I have no image of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&#038;post=145\">pingK pong<\/a> stand, which I find a pity. I have also no images of the old consoles in the history section. Also others were lost or forgotten and so here comes a random collection of images from the pong exhibition:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/pongspieler.JPG\" alt=\"pongspieler.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Trying out pong\n <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/pongmechanik.JPG\" alt=\"pongmechanik.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberniklas.de\/pongmechanik\/index.html\">Pongmechanik<\/a> by Niklas Roy <\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/valieexport24.JPG\" alt=\"valieexport24.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Valie Export: Ping Pong Ein Spielfilm-ein Film zum Spielen<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/sonicpong32.JPG\" alt=\"sonicpong32.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Having fun with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milmoe.com\/artprojects\/sonicpong\/sonicpong.htm\">sonic pong<\/a> by Andrew Milmoe<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/spieler.JPG\" alt=\"spieler.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/TFTtennis38.JPG\" alt=\"TFTtennis38.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Dirk Eijsbouts Tft Tennis v180\u00b0<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/redeyes.JPG\" alt=\"redeyes.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Red eyes from red LED&#8217;s: the 3D Borg from &#8220;Das Labor&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image374\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/painstation.JPG\" alt=\"painstation.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khm.de\/%7Emorawe\/painstation\/painstation_ger.html\">pain station<\/a>  from \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/fur\/\/\/\/<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/powerpong31.JPG\" alt=\"powerpong31.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">power pong by Mathilde muP<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/campingpong36.JPG\" alt=\"campingpong36.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Camping pong by Noel Nissen<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/LittleLights.JPG\" alt=\"LittleLights.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Little lights from Blinkenlights by Stephan Kambor<\/div>\n<p><img id=\"image375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/kiiakallio32.JPG\" alt=\"kiiakallio32.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Mixed Reality Pong by Kiia Kallio<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/Minipong.JPG\" alt=\"Minipong.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Minipong by Josh Nimoy<\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/legopong.JPG\" alt=\"legopong.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">lego pong <\/div>\n<p>\n<img id=\"image370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/08\/gottschalk.JPG\" alt=\"gottschalk.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:90%; text-align:center;\">Germanys popular entertainer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Gottschalk\">Thomas Gottschalk<\/a>  in a 70s TV show playing Telepong.<\/div>\n<p>All exhibition items are described on the homepage of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pong-mythos.net\/\">pong.mythos<\/a> website and in the excellent catalog which comes with the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>All images in this post about pong.mythos are from me and can be used under a creative commons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 24.8-27.8.2006 there is the socalled Games Convention (GC) in the City of Leipzig. The games convention is &#8211; next to the Tokyo Game Show and the E3 (which got small this year) &#8211; the biggest fair for computer games in the world. For this years fair there have been already now more than 150 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}