iPong on multiple iPod Touch devices

Ryo Shimizu, CEO of Ubiquitous Entertainment Inc. (also active as a blogger under the handle name “shi3z”), introduced iPong, his researcher buddy Mr. Kondo’s toy application for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Not much by way of explanation is provided, but multiple iPod Touches seem to be connected wirelessly and serve up a virtual game of Pong. Mr. Shimizu wrote that Mr. Kondo made it in about an hour.

Ubiquitous Entertainment Inc. is a company making mobile CMS and middleware.

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89 Responses to “iPong on multiple iPod Touch devices”

  1. A mí en lo personal me huele a fake, pero la verdad es que uno nunca sabe con este tipo de cosas,vía.

  2. iPong is a game for your iPod Touchwhich allows you to play Pong with multiple iTouch’s.Video here, more here (translated here).

  3. a new iPong game that lets the ball travel between different iPods via wireless. Not much else has been said about the game, but judging by the fact that it only took an hour to make, I’m sure something like this can/will/already has been made. ViaAsiajinTechnorati Tags iphone, ipod, ipod touch, pong

  4. Multiplayer Pong on the iPod touch(cute hack built in about an hour)

  5. Entertainment Inc. CEO 领清水时 ( Ryo Shimizu ) 所介绍的 iPod touch 小游戏, iPong,据说才花他底下一位叫做 Mr. Kondo 这位工程师约莫一个小时就完成了,这也未免太强了吧! [感谢 Javier] [出自Asiajin]Permalink | Email this | Comments

  6. Why are we so excited about the iPhone app store, opening next month? Because of stuff like this multiplayer Pong game — which will presumably be available for download — brought to our attention by Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber. (Supposedlycoded in an hour.) This looks like a lot of fun, and — more importantly — we actually know people with iPhones that we’ll be able to play against. Which is why Apple (AAPL) could succeed where Microsoft’s (MSFT) Zune tried and failed — getting people to do stuff

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdpmxHE7VU Oh my. Still need convincing that the iPhone/iPod touch is the greatest gaming platform ever made? Then checkthis video of a couple Japanese researchersplaying a game they claim to have put together “in about an hour”: multiscreen, touch-based Pong. On first glance, it looks like the game is even checking orientation of the iPods, but if you watch it a little further, when things go faster, you

  8. in an hour. We don’t know if it will make its way to the iTunes store as a commercial product, but I hope it inspires other developers to use this kind of competitive—or collaborative—gameplay. [Asiajinvia [Technabob]

  9. t undergo if it module attain its artefact to the iTunes accumulation as a advertizement product, but I wish it inspires another developers to ingest this category of competitive—or collaborative—gameplay. [Asiajinvia [Technabob]

  10. O que poderia ser melhor além de navegar na internet e acessar os vídeo do Youtube do seu iPhone? O que você acha da ideia de jogar um Battle Pong[iPong]com os amigos no iPhone? E ainda mais, jogar com mais de 1 oponente? ps.: disponibilidade ou maiores informações sobre, não achei, caso alguem achar deixe um comentário ae

  11. in an hour. We don’t know if it will make its way to the iTunes store as a commercial product, but I hope it inspires other developers to use this kind of competitive—or collaborative—gameplay. [Asiajinvia [Technabob]

  12. —in an hour. We don’t know if it will make its way to the iTunes store as a commercial product, but I hope it inspires other developers to use this kind of competitive—or collaborative—gameplay. [Asiajinvia [Technabob]

  13. —in an hour. We don’t know if it will make its way to the iTunes store as a commercial product, but I hope it inspires other developers to use this kind of competitive—or collaborative—gameplay. [Asiajin

  14. 视频看起来好像蛮有趣的样子哦!~ # 之所以是在iPod Touch而不是iPhone上先出现这个小游戏,据称是因为iPhone没有在日本发布.

  15. Non è chiaro come funzioni, però è interessante: [viaasiajin]

  16. Mira qué bien se lo pasan estos tres chavalesjugando al iPong con sus tres iPod Touch. Estos aparatos no son capaces de calcular sus posiciones relativas, y el funcionamiento se reduce a determinar en qué posición abandona la pelota la pantalla, y transmitir esta información al resto de aparatos (la cosa no va muy fina, si os fijáis

  17. 视频看起来好像蛮有趣的样子哦!~ # 之所以是在iPod Touch而不是iPhone上先出现这个小游戏,据称是因为iPhone没有在日本发布.

  18. Pong on Multiple iPod Touches

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  20. Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iPhoneOh my. Still need convincing that the iPhone/iPod touch is the greatest gaming platform ever made? Then checkthis video of a couple Japanese researchersplaying a game they claim to have put together “in about an hour”: multiscreen, touch-based Pong. On first glance, it looks like the game is even checking orientation of the iPods, but if you watch it a little further, when things go faster, you can

  21. iPongアプリを開発したのはユビキタスエンターテインメント研究員近藤氏。 同社の清水亮社長がshi3zブログで紹介し、 日本のITハイテク情報を英語で紹介するAsiajinブログで秋元氏がとり上げ、 海外をぐるっと一巡して「ポ~ン」とこちらに逆輸入というわけです。 開発にかかった時間は、たったの1時間。

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