A Giant Version ofPongPlayed With Feet Should Be the Next Olympic Sport

The most entertaining part of check the mod Olympics is hoping you catch some kind of drama , scandal , or debacle . And while the IOC has hoped that the addition of newfangled athletics like mixed two-baser draw in will suspire novel life into the games , the Olympics should instead introduce sports likemixed double interactive Pong — now that I ’d stay up tardily to watch .

rely on a single LIDAR sensor ( the same technology that lets independent railcar see the road forward ) in the corner of a room that can track up to 12 different people at once , a design store created calledMoment Factorycreated GRiD : a reimagined and gigantic version of Pong that swaps paddle controls for the movement of instrumentalist .

The game is a two - on - two affair , with each squad take both players to ruffle back and forth to move their giant paddle into place to intercept the bouncing ball . There are power - ups that can be touch off as well , courtesy of interrogation auction block that randomly appear in the game . Those can speed up gameplay , or give one of the teams a free-enterprise vantage .