For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade

Because I’m pretty sure the mob is still connected to pinball machines…

-David

Tom Bissell on Videogame Storytelling

-David

Originally from the PBS Idea Channel on YouTube. - Erik

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QR Code Pavilion

"That Thing Where a Digital Thing Appears in the Physical World"

Nathan Jurgenson in The Atlantic.

-Erik

Extra Credits provides an overview of augmented reality games and some concerns relating to the format. - Erik

Ready Player One: The Game

Ready Player One author Ernest Cline has commissioned an Atari 2600 game titled The Stacks as part of a three-part competition to win a DeLorean (the very 1980s car used for the time machine in Back To The Future). More on the contest itself here

Ernest Cline and DeLorean

Gameplay video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce8xy9z7G1c

-Erik

Eversion via Sound

-Will

Google Glass demonstration from the Google I/O 2012 conference keynote. Skydivers streaming the video from their Glass sets to a live Google+ Hangout. 

-Erik

how algorithms shape our (material) world