Playing tennis without a racket, scuba-diving without water or even playing video games without a console... All these things are possible thanks to a new concept called "air gaming".
It's going down a storm on video sharing sites. Which is good news for the people behind the project... who happen to be a marketing agency from Paris.
Guillaume Oudenot is the director of Pop of the Coma, the agency who invented the concept.
Sony Ericsson asked us to come up with a way to
promote their new phone which is fitted with the 'Motion Sensor' function - it senses
movement made with the phone. The problem was that technologically it had
already been done with Nintendo's Wii. So we were inspired to do a promotion using the
phone for air guitar. We set up an air gaming federation and a contest, and in
response, we got 70 decent videos, which was much more than we expected. Success! Now
we're working on the next project - 'Air Football' for FIFA 2009."
Muriel Huster is a former professional photographer and creator of "Apnée Défense", a scuba-gaming video that takes place in a lift.
When I found out about the competition I thought the idea
was absolutely brilliant. I already knew of air guitar but with air gaming
there's loads more to do. At first we wanted to use a group sport, after we'd
seen the rugby version, but it was too complicated. When we thought up the idea
of scuba-diving, we found it hilarious. We needed a lift that took a long time
so we went to the business district of Paris one afternoon with a wetsuit and a
peg. We filmed it with a digital camera, in 30 minutes, with the security
guards watching us. It was so funny!"
Deep-sea diving at la Défense, Paris:
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