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Turning snow sports into a real life video game

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Phormat
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I know the video is focused on snowboarding, but it correlates with us nonetheless. I wish the submissions were still open, but maybe some company could jump in with another technology producer (besides Nokia) to produce something similar for the ski industry.

From Nokia:

When the Nokia Push project began back in September 2009, we helped re-imagine skating, kite aerial photography, city guides and more. But even we could not have imagined this.

In 2011, Nokia Push will be collaborating with the world's biggest snowboarding company, Burton Snowboards, to create a new type of connected snowboarding. Work has already started between Nokia and Burton, and the collaboration will be run in the spirit of the Push project -- transparently, and openly in beta.




Oct 6 2010 9:18PM
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mariob
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thats insane, i wonder how much its going to cost though
Oct 6 2010 9:30PM
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*TURBONERD*
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oh my god. that would be absolutely amazing.
Oct 6 2010 9:35PM
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OrangeName
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umm..... what?

Oct 6 2010 9:39PM
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Ftacnik
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Wow...
Oct 6 2010 9:39PM
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samsquamch
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thats kind of nifty
Oct 6 2010 9:43PM
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RickAstley
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[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:WVsYtI0XgKBNWM:http://schichtleiter.1338.at/wp-content/uploads/house-do-want.jpg&t=1[/img]
Oct 6 2010 9:43PM
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RickAstley
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werk?
Oct 6 2010 9:43PM
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RickAstley
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k I give up

anyways this would be so sick if it actually worked!
Oct 6 2010 9:44PM
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ThaLorax
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Anyone else think this is a horrible idea for a creative sport like skiing/snowboarding? I'm out skiing to get away from society, not to judge myself based upon a mechanized score. I'll go compete if I want that... They said in that video that "we want to make every mountain a playground". Every mountain IS a playground, I don't need an electronic device to twitter to all my friends about how much fun I'm having on it...


Another example of society ruining something perfectly good.
Oct 6 2010 9:52PM
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HeathR
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wow that looks pretty fucking crazy.
Oct 6 2010 9:53PM
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Balto
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to bad no one in the states has a nokia phone..
Oct 6 2010 9:55PM
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CHARLES.BRONSON
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what this guy said
Oct 6 2010 9:56PM
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RuffRydrz
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Why exactly would i want a phone that tells me what "super radical" tricks i'm doing? If i'm out there skiing and having a good time, good for me thats about all that matters
Oct 6 2010 9:56PM
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adamlukowski
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is anybod else extremely confused?
Oct 6 2010 9:56PM
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RuffRydrz
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it appears to be a sensor that sends info to a phone that nokia makes...it tracks what "super sweet" tricks your doing
Oct 6 2010 9:59PM
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msndotwav
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"Turn every mountain to a playground" they said.. Mountains ARE playgrounds.
Oct 6 2010 10:03PM
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PaleCelery
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stooooopid
Oct 6 2010 10:04PM
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JahJahBinks
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no
Oct 6 2010 10:07PM
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Austin69
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so confused. What the fuck are they even doing
Oct 6 2010 10:07PM
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JStrathern
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wat.
Oct 6 2010 10:08PM
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MothaHucker
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im with you
Oct 6 2010 10:10PM
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chardi
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can skiing get involved with this????? please???
Oct 6 2010 10:13PM
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PaleCelery
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Why, you need a computer to tell you that you just did a 540? You would think people already know these things
Oct 6 2010 10:17PM
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84891jnf92048
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sort of want. i dont need to tweet my tricks to my friends, but it sure would solve the "pics or it didnt happen" issue. and i have always wanted a way to log airtime, vert skied, top speed, etc.
Oct 6 2010 10:20PM
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84west
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this
Oct 6 2010 10:48PM
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special-J
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my exact thoughts while watching this....
Oct 6 2010 11:13PM
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AJizzle
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Match this with the zea
Oct 6 2010 11:21PM
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AJizzle
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Sorry for the dub post, match this with the zeal transcend gps goggle and u'll be like a skiing fucking super computer, kinda cool, but extemely unnecessary
Oct 6 2010 11:24PM
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Phormat
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I really don't see what's confusing here, maybe it's the enginerd in me, but I find technology awesome, especially when applied to skiing. I understand the argument that skiing is already creative, but if anything, this only adds to that, and just barely. It's nothing radical, and nothing to get pissy about, skiing is different for many people. Think about how sick edits would be with information scrolling on the side, yaw rates, angular velocity, altitude, speed. Feasibly you could break down almost every aspect of a trick, from the initial set, to when grabs were initiated and at what angle. Sure it may take some of the pure soul out, but like I said, its not gonna change anything if you don't care about it.
Oct 6 2010 11:59PM
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aquinn
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WAH?
Oct 7 2010 12:05AM
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ThaLorax
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you can easily get all of that except maybe airtime already with a gps. hell, there's even an ipod app that does most of that.
Oct 7 2010 12:08AM
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Atypical
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I think the technology is simply amazing, and could be used in various ways to produce some amazing results. But I don't think it's feasible as a "live action videogame". If this does somehow slip into the mainstream of actionsports, I'm sure there's enough people out there that can find the art in the sport.

Oct 7 2010 12:11AM
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RubberSoul
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this is almost as dumb as that other one.

thank god i can finally have a computer to tell me what its called when i do a spin in the air and grab the tip of my ski. then tweetclaim it to my friends
Oct 7 2010 12:39AM
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_Jesus_
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Im sorry, but this is stupid. "we can turn mountains into playgrounds".. ??????. they already are, we dont need to twitter and facebook our skiing/boarding advancements for them to mean something

sparknotes- snowsports are perfect the way they are, they dont need to be a real life video game.
Oct 7 2010 12:47AM
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Sam.Carson
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WOW that s intense
Oct 7 2010 12:49AM
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Dntel.
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Not to be a dick or anything, but i guess I just really couldn't give a flying fuck about any of those details. I'm all about soul, dig? So yeah i guess that last sentence of your post is correct.
Oct 7 2010 1:17AM
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MothaHucker
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i dont know what any of those words mean.
Oct 7 2010 2:11AM
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bigs
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um cool i think someone please explain to us non phd high school dropouts
Oct 7 2010 2:24AM
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ThaLorax
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it's a computer chip that you attach to your snowboard which tweets or facebooks or whatever the fuck you tell it to do the tricks that you do and stuff like that.
Oct 7 2010 2:55AM
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KLovelace
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meh
Oct 7 2010 3:02AM
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bakedpow
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its cool but i would rather keep skiing about the love of getting into the mountains rather than about the greatest and latest technology
Oct 7 2010 3:29AM
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DADDYlongLEGS
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Turning real life into a video game? I guess...
Oct 7 2010 3:48AM
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84891jnf92048
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which is why i think that this is cool, but wont catch on.
Oct 7 2010 6:41AM
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k-fred
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why they just dont do a fucking nice video game from real life move en sensor,i mean every trick that is done is skate 3(example) are call spin, front flip with spin or backflip with spin...so the idea is the sensor that they use in real life could be in video.
Oct 7 2010 6:56AM
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SassySloth
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Aren't mountains already playgrounds??


Oct 7 2010 7:08AM
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ContaminatedBeef
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yes, yes they are.
Oct 7 2010 10:06AM
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-Otto-
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This!
Oct 7 2010 1:27PM
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alex.bgk.
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i bet it wont be able to detect shuffles anyway...
Oct 7 2010 1:45PM
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MatRich
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wow thats so fucking gay. its not enough for people to disconect from each other in comunications by texting or tweeting and all of that crap, now they want to disconect from the joys of pure thrill and outdoors and make it a game! because reality isnt fun, games, Games GAMES! come on this is fucking retarded.
Oct 7 2010 2:30PM
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JStrathern
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I'm kind of on both sides, I mean it is pretty damn gay to turn something that's already amazing into a game, but at the same time it would be so awesome to know what angle/amount of rotation your flat 5 just was, and what kind of amplitude and speed you had. You can speed check something and know exactly what MPH you were going to make the hit perfect. I think this and that in-goggle LCD screen someone posted before should go together. Like display your speed/amplitude/angle of roatation ect. in the bottom right corner of the inside of your goggles.
Oct 7 2010 3:02PM
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