Pretty damn sweet, but that rotating light in the first part of the video is annoying as hell IMHO.

And I bet it dazzles the babes too! :)

would make table top RPGs a lot simpler to get into. Less math, faster game play, not as scary so you’d be more likely to get people to play with you, etc.

pretty nice! have any of you tried the new 3d glasses from nvidia ? it could be a cool mashup :P
molt xula la taula, aquest de la pompeu us ho curreu i tot :P

Good job Ramon. Playing Warhammer in tangible display…GREAT!

@planadecu:

those “new” 3d glasses from nVidia aren’t new by any means. they’re just trying to bring back a technology they tried to make popular ten years ago, and it’s going to bomb just as terribly as it did then. look up “elsa 3d revelator.”

That’s sick. I’d love to see these things spread around

Is he opening the source or is this a proprietary thing?

Please show me the source… I needs it, my precious. Precious table I wants to play! PLAY!

This could be the new Table Top version of WoW. Open it Plueeeze!

@iv

Did you miss this sentance: “the reacTable also uses tangible fiducial markers to represent objects and as an alternative input method”

;)

Wow, that’s really cool. That would make a really nifty way to play traditional board games, or say D&D.

The original source is open.
http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/?software
LGPL, GPL, BSD (bottom of the page)

This is incredible.

A system intended for tabletop gaming would need some way to make the figurines more visible. Either a ring of horizontal lights/leds around the screen to throw light onto items, and/or translucent figurines; much like the fiduciary markers.

@ eternaluxe

Yeah, that’s the ReacTable source, not the source for this game. At least I couldn’t find it on ReacTable’s page. I want the game source.

I agree this would be great for Warhammer Fantasy or 40k – the rules are increasingly complex every year and this sort of system would be really great. The computer games are great but lack the awesomeness of the miniatures – this would be a great mix of the two. It would also be another reason why playing GW games on the tabletop is a very expensive hobby.

I am in the middle of starting a project nearly identical to this. I have the pieces on order to build a touch screen table, the right size to play D&D on. I was thinking of using fiducial markers on the bottom of D&D minis in order to identify them and use MapTool(an open source D&D table program with networking support) as a base, adding multitouch support to it. However, it seems rather silly to duplicate effort. I am wondering what the code for this is doing. Is it opensource or is it meant to be a commercial application?

This was a really well done final project by Ramon Viladomat, he also created a facebook page, so you could try to get in touch with him for more information on his project:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ReacTable-Role-Gaming/45721594002