Full Body Dance Dance Revolution

tasty_beanburger writes "NewScientistTech has a story about a full body version of Dance Dance Revolution. It uses vision recognition to award points after assessing a player's ability to correctly mimic silhouetted dance shapes. Check out the video clip of it being demoed at SIGGRAPH 2006."

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Sounds a lot like "Supermodel Shootout"

[strags]

Sounds a lot like "Supermodel Shootout" from Indie Game Jam 2. Exactly like it, in fact.

http://www.indiegamejam.com/ seems to be down at the moment, but there's an article at http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Special+Feature s&article_no=1745&page=3.

ParaParaParadise

[DyslexicLegume]

I think Konami's already made a lot of these sorts of games before. The one that springs to mind is ParaParaParadise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParaParaParadise

And here's some research about that!

[mrchaotica]

• Recognizing gestures in cars, using a similar method to this game
• Another sign language-recognition paper
• A sign language-based game

Talk about Old News

[Neo_piper]

Dude It's called ParaParaParadise and it's been out since 2000.

Strike a pose!

[IntelliTubbie]

As a DDR fan reporting from SIGGRAPH, I'm disappointed to say that the gameplay is more like striking a series of "poses" than actual dancing. "Okay, now put your arms straight up. Now put them in a V. Now lean over sideways. It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A! ..."

Cheers,
IT

Re:The Coolest Tech Always Starts Useless

[UltraAyla]

According to the American Obesity Association, 2/3 of the nation is overweight, not obese, and is wildly different than 2/3 being obese. Only about 30% of the nation is obese (which is still horrible, granted, but much better than 2/3).