Project Marcos, laser to play Pong

The laser pointer that always escapes has made its place in history thank you to the Seamless Interaction team, a line of research within the Media Technologies group of La Salle-Ramon Llull University, coordinated by David Miralles, with the participation of Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students. The project, created by Ian Magarzo is called Marcos and uses the laser pointer called life Spark , which interacts with real objects and even people. The essence of the project is the connection between the virtual and the real world, breaking the barriers that have always existed between them. This small virtual spark is projected in our world and affects everything that surrounds it. And not only can the environment alter it, but it can also alter its own environment activating or deactivating objects as it passes by. It can also turn on lights and activate musical notes contained in small cylinders the laser can interact with to create endless melodies. Marcos builds a bridge between two universes and makes it evident that the technological revolution allows the fluctuation between the digital and the real world, what is palpable and what is ethereal.  With Marcos we can play that videogame in which we passed each other a ball on a plane - with a hybrid between the real and the digital. This time with ping pong bats and a ball created by computer.