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! :)

Posted at 8:06 pm on Jan 18th, 2009 by Wwhat

i like this idea a lot.

i could see warhammer working nicely if you let the table draw all the terrain and figure lines of sight and so forth.

i’ve also toyed with the idea of using a projector to do overlays on an actual warhammer game, but besides looking neat it wouldn’t be nearly as useful.

Posted at 8:58 pm on Jan 18th, 2009 by VGZ

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.

Posted at 9:59 pm on Jan 18th, 2009 by Rob

sign me up. my brother will also take one.

imagine a couple of these networked. running some warhammer or any top down RPG, hell smash TV would kill.

Posted at 10:41 pm on Jan 18th, 2009 by kyle

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

Posted at 11:26 pm on Jan 18th, 2009 by planadecu

now what would be really cool is if they used machine vision to read actual dice. tabletop gaming isn’t fun unless you can through a fistfull of dice across the table

Posted at 12:10 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by giskard

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

Posted at 1:57 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by drewen

The geek in me loves the idea. The gamer knows that a wide screen and a mouse are far more effective.

Posted at 2:24 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by Iv

@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.”

Posted at 3:10 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by evan

this could make warhammer actually FUN!

Posted at 3:42 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by dan

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

Posted at 6:48 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by Timothy

I am going to buy a reactable whenever I can, and with a bit of research perhaps I can make it on hack a day, lol. So many possibilities I’m far too excited…

Posted at 6:49 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by Zero-Hero

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!

Posted at 7:02 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by Attrezzo

Impresive stuff, it looks like a lot of work! to develop such and amazing looking game! congrats!

Posted at 7:27 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by b14ckf0x

@iv

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

;)

Posted at 7:44 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by benhoe

oops…that last comment should’ve been @giskard

Posted at 7:45 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by benhoe

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

Posted at 7:50 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by JH

warhammer??? this is for D&D, of course.

Posted at 8:49 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by trimegisto

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

Posted at 10:57 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by eternaluxe

I… hmm. This is interesting, since I sent the ReacTable team an e-mail mentioning my work on something similar. I’m curious as to whether they were inspired by my e-mail, or if they’ve been working on this for quite a while?

At any rate, it looks less intuitive than I would have imagined. I was thinking D&D, and when in map editing mode it would display a grid and any walls would automagically snap to the grid (since everything is grid-based in D&D anyway). Enclosing an area with walls would automatically lay down the default floor tile, different “themes” would change the default tiles, textures, etc.

Combined with some of the virtual tabletop engines out there, this could really be a great way to do long distance D&D.

Posted at 11:08 am on Jan 19th, 2009 by Mythgarr

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.

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jan 19th, 2009 by pragma

Need mythgarr’s ideas implemented and augmented reality goggles so that people can play long distance d&d with the people appearing to be present. Just without the smell. And with a volume control.

Posted at 6:10 pm on Jan 19th, 2009 by mouse

@ 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.

Posted at 6:19 am on Jan 20th, 2009 by Attrezzo

@ eternaluxe

errrt… Sorry you said “original” so yes the original source is opened… that is correct. I guess I’m hoping then that this game’s source will be made available at some point as well.

Posted at 6:20 am on Jan 20th, 2009 by Attrezzo

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.

Posted at 8:16 am on Jan 21st, 2009 by Nick Fogelson

Ok, uh, someone above mentioned wanting to “buy a reactable,” but I can tell you first hand how painless and cheap it is just to build one, provided you have a decent webcam and a projector. I set one of these up a few years ago, actually, so I’m glad to see it’s getting some attention again.

Posted at 7:05 pm on Jan 21st, 2009 by jbr

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?

Posted at 10:32 am on Jan 22nd, 2009 by Chris Wachal

Any more on this or Ramon Viladomat?

I have seen nothing, but am as interested in all the people were back in Jan?

Posted at 3:39 pm on Sep 3rd, 2009 by CarsonLions

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

Posted at 5:57 pm on Oct 8th, 2009 by anon