Sega has created an interactive sandbox for shopping centers and game rooms.

The company Sega, which I think everyone knows on Habré, recently announced an interesting new project: an interactive sandbox for children. True, the project is so interesting that adults will also be happy to play in this sandbox (I would play a couple of hours, so surely).

Similar projects have already been described a couple of times on Habré, but these were mostly DIY projects, from individual craftsmen, and here a project from a well-known corporation, which should go to the masses. Well, we are talking about a system consisting of an ordinary sandbox, projectors and several sensors that determine the height of the sand figures in the sandbox. There is a computer in the system that analyzes all the information received from the sensors and controls the projected image.
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If a child digs a hole in the sand, the projector immediately fills the hole with "water" and lets the fish swim there. If a child creates an elevation, her computer is considered a hill or a mountain, and populates with appropriate animals. In addition, the projector colors the sandbox, depending on the height of the figures. The deeper the hole, so it is blue - it seems that at the bottom - deep water.

The higher - the more elevated it becomes like a mountain.

Among other things, the seasons change in the sandbox; you can observe all four seasons: summer, autumn, winter and spring.



As for the virtual animals that inhabit the world created by a child, you can also interact with them. Animals react to a player’s touch or action in close proximity with such an “organism”.



Sega will supply similar sandboxes, as mentioned above, for shopping centers, entertainment centers, game halls and other similar places. Presumably, the children and their parents will be pleased.

Via nikkeibp