selectparks - New Submission to Art Games: '////furminator'

First Person Pinball, 2004 - Eye to eye with the ////furminator. Are you superior? Modified T2-Pinball-Machine with mechatronic Immersion-Environment, Force-Feedback-Helmet and 5-Channel-Video-Transmission.

The ////furminator is a pinball machine that puts the player in a first person perspective similar to modern "EGO Shooter" video games. Like being inside a huge VR-helmet, the player's head is stuck into the ////furminator capsule. His nose is situated right behind the flipper fingers, only centimeters away from the ball. Sealed off from reality and with his head arrested inside a force-feedback-helmet, the sound- and lighteffects, the mechanical noises of the pinball and the absorbing perspective create a highly immersive mechatronic environment .. read on ...