Uuh, What is Ping Pong TV Again?

Ping Pong TV (Promotional Video)

A summary of what Ping Pong TV is and why it was created.

Ping Pong TV on one level is an interactive public access television show that broadcasts stereoscopic images for 30 minutes. And on another level, Ping Pong TV game play is a public TV art installation that is situated in private spaces. It uses the popular Atari Pong video game layout to create a familiar image that encourages experimentation while playing this version of ping pong. A viewer who participates in playing the game via a home-made game controller will notice how they can manipulate the moving images on screen creating new stereoscopic imagery and also alter the basic soundtrack of the ping-pong balls hitting or missing a paddle.

With a wide-ranging assortment of television monitors and the upcoming U.S. digital TV transition, Ping Pong TV can continue to exist as an interactive TV show because of its use of taking two-dimensional moving images and broadcasting them for three-dimensional viewing. As new technology for TV progress, Ping Pong TV hopes to evolve and introduce new types of interactive TV programming and technology.