The floor is lava is a game kids play every so often where they pretend the floor is lava and you lose if you touch the floor...

Wouldn't it be cool if you had a device like a tablet with camera or a kinect that created an overlay of the world and then displayed it to you and then was able to detect when your foot or the tablet touched lava...

It'd be easy if you combined WiiU's controller or a tablet or an iphone, so you can look around, a and a camera system that could keep an eye on every where you go and the kinect software to track your foot on the floor...

Imagine if you could do it somehow with just iPhones... have the entire world playing the floor is lava all day long ^.^


sorry... just a whimsical idea >.>

Use a VR helmet. Not everything has to be controlled by the computer or some sort of AI -- why change a childhood game that can be perfectly played without artificial assistance into another home timesink? Children stay much more indoors nowadays anyway

because I think it would be funny to watch a bunch of adults playing all day long to try to keep better scores than other people

Plus its a great excerise for adults. lol Watching the adults try to stay off the cement, grass etc. Platforms would be benches, tables, curbs, light pole blocks, etc.

For parkor people it would be way to easy. Their always up on the roofs. Haha.

Yeah that would be extremely boring. I wouldn't really play that. If I want to play the floor is lava, I just go play the floor is lava. Why does everything need to be digitalized?

Interesting idea. Not sure if it would really work though. With the kind of technology we have today it would be a tad awkward to implement not to mention the idea of trying to play something like this while holding a few £100 worth of equipment in your hand could go terribly wrong . I think the biggest problem you would encounter is the same one say a DS game that makes you use the mic has. Its fine when you're alone but the last thing you want to do is be screaming at your DS while on the bus. So ye shear embarrassment would probably be your biggest problem.

Yeah that would be extremely boring. I wouldn't really play that. If I want to play the floor is lava, I just go play the floor is lava. Why does everything need to be digitalized?

Adding the element of a computer keeping track you could set up a ranking board and then you'd have people being competitive...about not touching the floor.

Interesting idea. Not sure if it would really work though. With the kind of technology we have today it would be a tad awkward to implement not to mention the idea of trying to play something like this while holding a few £100 worth of equipment in your hand could go terribly wrong . I think the biggest problem you would encounter is the same one say a DS game that makes you use the mic has. Its fine when you're alone but the last thing you want to do is be screaming at your DS while on the bus. So ye shear embarrassment would probably be your biggest problem.

Indeed, but if you get one person in an area to do it and that person can get a second you'd have an awesome phenomenon because that second person starting to play will likely lead to other starting to play in rapid succession and the keep track engages our competitiveness and suddenly it becomes great fun both to play and watch

Also, since things can go wrong it leads to sturdier builds and we get better products ^.^

There was a neat Xbox Kinect hack where vr glasses and a Kinect (or two, I'm not sure) were used to allow a player's surroundings to be re-interpreted through the software. A room with a desk and a couch in it could become a cave with a treasure chest and a big rock, and the player could interact with it by moving around naturally, holodeck-style. I've seen apps and games that use a camera-equipped mobile screen to do this on a simpler level, either populating the real world with fictional objects or replacing real-world entities with fantastic ones. In order for the floor to become lava, you'd have to have a pretty sophisticated system, capable of recognizing floors as such. I'm not sure we're there yet.

One thing I was thinking about was a sort of fictional geocaching event, where participants could subscribe to a service that would alert them to game events. The events would be staged anomalies at random locations in the world, and they'd have access to three critical tools: A large-scale event report, that would tell them where things were happening in a very general way, a local "minimap", maybe a kilometer in diameter, that would provide more detailed information on the nearest content, and a sort of "viewfinder" app, using the compass and accelerometer technology that's in use today to allow them to scan for these little nuggets in the real world. So you'd be at lunch and your iPhone would buzz and it would be telling you that a class 3 anomaly had occurred in your vicinity, so you fire up the minimap and it shows your location, the anomaly's location and the location of the other people who have checked their maps in response to the anomaly. Then the race is on, as you all try to be the first to get the prize in your viewfinder and interact with it. Maybe you're shooting ghosts, maybe you're photographing UFOs, maybe you're gathering stardust, whatever. Scores are kept, flash mobs are formed, and people take special trips to find juicy targets that spawn in national parks or on large bodies of water. Maybe someone gets shot by a rancher when he tries to score a sweet hit on some pasture in the middle of the night. Awesome.

There was a neat Xbox Kinect hack where vr glasses and a Kinect (or two, I'm not sure) were used to allow a player's surroundings to be re-interpreted through the software. A room with a desk and a couch in it could become a cave with a treasure chest and a big rock, and the player could interact with it by moving around naturally, holodeck-style. I've seen apps and games that use a camera-equipped mobile screen to do this on a simpler level, either populating the real world with fictional objects or replacing real-world entities with fantastic ones. In order for the floor to become lava, you'd have to have a pretty sophisticated system, capable of recognizing floors as such. I'm not sure we're there yet.

One thing I was thinking about was a sort of fictional geocaching event, where participants could subscribe to a service that would alert them to game events. The events would be staged anomalies at random locations in the world, and they'd have access to three critical tools: A large-scale event report, that would tell them where things were happening in a very general way, a local "minimap", maybe a kilometer in diameter, that would provide more detailed information on the nearest content, and a sort of "viewfinder" app, using the compass and accelerometer technology that's in use today to allow them to scan for these little nuggets in the real world. So you'd be at lunch and your iPhone would buzz and it would be telling you that a class 3 anomaly had occurred in your vicinity, so you fire up the minimap and it shows your location, the anomaly's location and the location of the other people who have checked their maps in response to the anomaly. Then the race is on, as you all try to be the first to get the prize in your viewfinder and interact with it. Maybe you're shooting ghosts, maybe you're photographing UFOs, maybe you're gathering stardust, whatever. Scores are kept, flash mobs are formed, and people take special trips to find juicy targets that spawn in national parks or on large bodies of water. Maybe someone gets shot by a rancher when he tries to score a sweet hit on some pasture in the middle of the night. Awesome.

I was thinking a few weeks back that it would be awesome to create a full on alternate reality by way of camera phones, tablets, and other such devices, where in you take a map of the earth and you make a completely new world map. You then would be able to look into this world by having a gps program telling the alternate reality where the tablet/phone is and what to display... From there you could create a Pokemon/monster hunter type game where you could get pets... a minecraft type game where you could through pets build things... or create a RPG type thing where you could detect other "viewers" and attack them.

It doesn't need to be digitalized...However.

When I was a kid we found some stucks in the garage and started sword fighting.

After a few too many misses and whacks it got old, but I remember thinking at the time, wouldn't it be cool if you had some VR goggles and a handle (like a lightsabre) and the goggles overlaid a glowy sword?

And you could swing it around and play with another person.

That doesn't really need to be digitized either, of course, but I dunno. Maybe all "augmented reality" is a little base station with a 360 degree LIDAR that can get the physical structure of your environment down, plus some goggles, and maybe one of those mind reading headsets mention in the other thread. And while we're at it, a message with a happy ending.