[The Next Web] The table tennis table your developers can finally geek out over


Thomas Mayer, a student from the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany, might have just built the ultimate fanboy tennis table – and it looks amazing. The Table Tennis Trainer, developed as part of Mayer’s bachelor thesis project, is an interactive ping pong table that tracks the ball in real time to provide data visualisation and help players and trainers step up their game. To make the gathered data readily available, Mayer has developed a projected mapped interface that displays player statistics directly on the surface of the table. Additionally, players can use the projection interface to map new obstacles onto the…

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