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Some people at MIT media lab were working on similar stuff 20 years ago.

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/765891.766108

Other info: https://blog.siggraph.org/2021/02/a-look-back-at-past-emergi...




Also notable, Sega Toylets, which I was surprised Yakuza Kiwami 2 didn't make up: https://www.wired.com/2011/01/sega-urinal-games/


These were never common, but as the article mentions, they were in a few metro stations about 12 years ago. I knew of one Sega arcade with them in Akihabara, but it didn't survive COVID. Haven't seen any in about 3 years.

They were pretty funny, and only based on pressure x time. One game had you playing as a barista filling up coffee decanters as fast as possible. Far-fetched enough that it was just funny. Another game had you playing as weather during a storm, and on the screen was a female weather reporter, with the objective being to blow her skirt higher and higher. Not exactly aging well.




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