Breakfast is a Brooklyn-based kinetic art studio. They've created this Billion Dollar Arcade Series, a collection of interactive art pieces that recall the earliest videogames: Pong, Breakout and Space Invaders.
A flip-disc display is used to provide the "pixels."
Motion trackers concealed within the frame read the user's motions, allowing them to play the games using gestures.
For me it's a bridge too far, but in creating these pieces, Breakfast is trying to make a statement about how videogames have gone from humble curiosities to generating billions of dollars in revenue. To that end, these pieces are apparently connected to the internet and track the stock market in real time; when the market goes up, the difficulty level of the games is increased. "The higher the value, the faster and more challenging the gameplay," the firm explains.
These are being released as limited edition art pieces, with just 8 units made for each of the three games.
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