You’ve drove around your neighbourhood a thousand times and you claim to know it like the back of your hand. You’ve boasted to your friends about being able to get through the neighbourhood blindfolded and hopping on one leg. This might be true, but would you be able to fly your teensy little spacecraft through it?

In-car gaming systems have taken the term ‘wild drives’ to a new level. Carcade, a new in-car videogame uses a landscape familiar to you so that winning truly becomes a matter of pride. Designed by three students from the Berlin University of Arts, Carcade uses a webcam via your laptop to capture and incorporate the landscape outside your car window into the game, so that you are left with the sense that instead of driving through the neighbourhood, you are flying your UFO through it. The difficulty level of the game changes with the scenario outside as the obstacles or the speed with which the car is being driven increases.

This would be another reason to get yourself a vehicle and have a trusty friend drive you around. After all, joy rides are never complete unless you have a friend with a wild streak showing you the sights.

Via: Engadget