@jon @pascoda speed climbing wall with light up holds that replays the previous best for you to race against!

@jonathanhogg @jon @pascoda LED panel climbing wall that shows the mask of every previous climber overlaid, so you get a blob of meta-human to race against

(you could also do this with projection but that's less cool, easier though)

@jonty @jonathanhogg @pascoda it does seem terrifyingly doable. Biggest problem to solve is probably how to mount climbing holds on an LED wall. Nothing that can’t be solved with a lot of perspex, a laser cutter, and some planning though.

@jonty with axes

@jonathanhogg @jon @pascoda

my god, @jon , what have we done?
😂

@CatherineFlick @jonty @jonathanhogg

@CatherineFlick @jonty @jonathanhogg @jon @pascoda

everybody please step away from the lathe

@pikesley @jonty @jonathanhogg @jon @pascoda this is what happens when we're all back at work again

@CatherineFlick @pikesley @jonty @jonathanhogg @jon

we get deprivation symptoms and have stupid ideas?

@jon @jonathanhogg @pascoda Prototype should just be a projector, depth camera, and a start button I think. Could probably knock that out in a couple of hours if we had a climbing wall to play with.

@jon @jonty @jonathanhogg
oh, things like that have been built already, I think 😅
.. opening times for the bouldering wall, like with the escape rooms?

@pascoda @jonty @jonathanhogg LED lit holds on boards to highlight different routes set via an app are in basically every gym now. Projection mapping of people’s route across them less so.

@pascoda @jonty @jonathanhogg Me: “I’m going to commit to doing less next time”.
Also me: “But running a bouldering wall in Null Sec does sound amazing”.

@jon you are not going to be doing this

@jonty @jonathanhogg @pascoda

@jon @jonathanhogg @pascoda We could totally pull off a bouldering wall like this at EMF though.

Or... https://www.jmentertainment.co.uk/category/climbing-walls/316/rock-climbing-wall-hire

@jonty @jon @pascoda Yeah, projecting onto a rented climbing wall would certainly solve the safety/insurance issues… I absolutely love the idea of an overlaid mass of bodies scrambling up the wall like something out of a zombie film!

@jonathanhogg @jon @pascoda Might be fun to just take a depth camera to the climbing wall one day and record a wall for a few hours to see what it might look like

@jonty @jonathanhogg @pascoda I’m very tempted to give this a go now, especially if it’s not at too much of an angle I reckon you could get really good distinction between wall, holds, and climber.

@jon @jonathanhogg @pascoda If only we had this idea when nullsec WAS SET IN A QUARRY

@jon @jonathanhogg @pascoda Oh, also, if you use a projector you can projection map the holds...

@jonty @jon @jonathanhogg

ha, here we go, some examples:

https://www.valomotion.com/valoclimb

https://www.optomaeurope.com/case-studies/520-augmented-climbing-wall-takes-climbing-to-a-whole-new-level

https://www.dfki.de/fileadmin/user_upload/import/9309_ClimbVis.pdf

the last one is with/by @flowdie , it seems?