Neato: some Germans built a foosball-playing
robot.
Now if you had two tables like that, as well as some sensors on the
human side and a network connection for the computer controller, you’d be all
set for some telefoosing — except, the ball and the table surface and the
server would have to be identical, and even then I’m sure the way the
two balls bounced wouldn’t be the same ..
So instead of a real ball, all four players (local and remote) wear
special glasses and the image of the ball is projected onto the glasses .. and
the table introduces a bit of force-feedback into the rods when they’re
supposed to be making contact with the holo-ball. And it’d generate the sound
effects too (foos-man hitting ball, ball hitting goal, etc) …
now that’d be nifty 😉
We could call it virtual-tele-robo-foosball … or something