i've heard about robot wars, but not robot darts. i'm imagining drunk robots with scouse accent in midi
High Tech Version of Pool
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i've heard about robot wars, but not robot darts. i'm imagining drunk robots with scouse accent in midi
DaWizard
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This is kind of what I have been yapping about here on the forum.
Or something like this. Here the mobile phone is used to make a photo of the game table and resolve the battles.
It would be more for Asian teenagers than tge average AZ billiards poster.
Still it has to be done right. Because targets are hard to hit for average drunk joe. So the game has to have goals that are easy to obtain, but hard (or lucky) to do perfect. And players should always have hope to win ("if he misses that 9-ball..")
I hope they hire some really good game designers that know how to design "fun".
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It might fly across the pond.
You can bet they'll have the best.
I'd imagine it will probably have some elements similar to that. But I can't help think the main piece of technology will be this projector system.
idk. it's not intended for us. it's not even for regular pool bangers as much as for the "where shall we go next"-party crowd. hard to assess what will fly or not, but it will surely generate new fans of pool. that's the nature of colliding balls
Moe Szyslak
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They not interested in the billiards training market. This is something shiny to keep you occupied while you wait for your $35 Wagyu burger and curated cocktail to come.
From one of the articles - they're going to project stuff onto the table that you can hit for points and stuff. Basically a big pinbal...uh sorry, video game. They're not looking to train people in the game. They're just going to add stuff so your drunk coworker that can't sink a ball can run the ball into a scoring bumper...uh, bonus target and get points.
The venue, which is being backed by investors including the US-based venture capital firm Sharp Alpha Advisors and the Daily Mail investment arm, dmg ventures, uses pool tables, balls and cues from the traditional game but adds tracking technology and video projections to add bonus targets and obstacles in an attempt to appeal to larger groups.
Moe Szyslak
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Poolhouse raises $34M for gamified pool from the creators of Topgolf
Poolhouse, an effort from the Topgolf founders to build entertainment clubs around the game of pool, has raised $34 million.
venturebeat.com
Their 'vision' barely takes pool into an account. It's an activity that helps to sell 'high ticket' food and booze. The main thing is their tech, which is going to project video game like stuff on the table, and it's proprietary, so they can sell it to other places. That's the whole point of the thing.
And so that’s why we’ve spent a lot of time in what some people are calling the eater-tainment, or the competitive socialization space, which is the space of Topgolf, Putt Shack and other concepts which take a conventional activity, add a proprietary technology angle that delivers a unique and new gamification layer, and then typically pair it with a food and beverage or hospitality concept to create a third place for leisure.”
Those are all concepts Sharp Alpha is bullish on.
“Then we met Poolhouse, which plays into many of the thesis ideas in this category. They are a concept that is conducive to high ticket food and beverage spend,” Danzig said. “They are conducive to corporate event spend, which is critical to delivering margin. And they have proprietary white label technology that can be sold at scale to hotels, casinos and other entertainment venues that want tech enable their pool tables. And so that’s part of the broader software enabled vision.”
DaWizard
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Yeah, I think so too. And I think - if it works well, not glitchy and stuff - then there are some very cool possibilities.
My fear/guess is that they won't come up with games that are really great and fun to play over and over, but mostly flashy enough to give average joe the possibility to cheer for scoring a megaball or something.
DaWizard
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Maybe a zombie game where one player tries to infect the balls and the other tries to fight the zombies. The projector can project green light on the zombies. If you don't move a zombie ball it starts to emit 'creep' every turn. The hero can't cross creep, limiting the play area. Get an upgrade for the cue ball so that it can clean up the creep.
Moe Szyslak
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ding ding ding ding
So glad I don't golf.
Moe Szyslak
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I find it odd that they're rolling this out right at the time that Topgolf is laying off workers and the parent company is "spinning them" off because their sales are in decline and their stock is in steady freefall.
It will be interesting if they can incorporate something like AI to show the player how/where to shoot a particular shot. This is interesting mostly because I believe if they can make that work, it would sell more as a training aid outside of this concept.
Regardless, if it gets more people to play in pool halls, I'm all for it.
Regardless, if it gets more people to play in pool halls, I'm all for it.
Moe Szyslak
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Nothing they've said about it indicates it's any kind of a training type thing. Actually kind of the opposite - they want to expand they market so you can play even if you can't sink a ball. You run over a target and get points that way. Their aim is 'gamification' not 'training'.
See the Topgolf video, same kind of thing. You drive balls and get points for hitting certain targets, then there are bonus rounds and stuff.
See the Topgolf video, same kind of thing. You drive balls and get points for hitting certain targets, then there are bonus rounds and stuff.
maybe they are trying to branch out and save themselves
pool tables take a lot less space than golf courses