Scott Ruggels Posted August 18, 2023 Report Share Posted August 18, 2023 I’ll let people know about the sphere when Ibgo to Vegas late September. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2023 More AI drones and robotic dogs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted September 6, 2023 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2023 Check out these soccer variants: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted October 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2023 HEMA fencers test lightsabers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted October 22, 2023 Report Share Posted October 22, 2023 (edited) Speaking of The Sphere in Las Vegas: https://petapixel.com/2023/10/20/darren-aronofsky-says-it-takes-12-people-to-use-the-18k-sphere-camera/ Edited October 22, 2023 by Scott Ruggels tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 Here's something different. It's a couple of years old, but it's appropriate for this time of year. DShomshak 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rich McGee Posted November 25, 2023 Report Share Posted November 25, 2023 Clearly the sport of the future is super-boxing, directly inspired by John Byrne's (I'm blaming him because he's the biggest name involved) Super Boxers graphic novel. Gladiatorial fights passed off as public "destructive testing" for geneered bioweapons probably shows up a lot too. Maybe with a crossover league for combat robot matches so we can see the arms race between hard and soft tech right there in the arena. You'll pay for the whole seat, but you only need the edge! Probably going to be some really strange "historical recreation" stuff as we move forward. AIs dressed up in lifelike android bioshells (with realistic bleeding features!) and old-fashioned industrial robots teleoperated by actual meat humans refighting the early battles of the Pansapience Revolution, that sort of thing. Scott Ruggels and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2023 Let's not forget old-school futuristic (is that an oxymoron, or what?) fun: RC planes and rocketry. I'm sure there have been a lot of improvements over the years, but failures still occur. and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted December 4, 2023 Report Share Posted December 4, 2023 I suspect countless forms of drone operation will probably largely replace/absorb those two as future sports. RC airplanes are already drones in all but name, and there's nothing actually stopping you from making drones with solid-fuel propulsion systems beyond the expense. Hybrid rocket/airfoil drones might become a thing, and would certainly help make rocketry more accessible to people who don't have ready access to large amounts of land for launch & recovery sites - it's not really a city dweller's hobby as-is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted January 6 Author Report Share Posted January 6 According to the comments, this scene shows Cirque du Soleil acrobats practicing their routine instead of some extreme competition as the narrator claims. It looks almost like a scene from the Flash Gordon film. Rich McGee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted January 8 Report Share Posted January 8 The novel Braking Day had a sport involving teams from different hab-rings of a generation ship piloting customized EVA craft in a sort of obstacle derby race, although I think the "course" was a VR creation rather physical for safety reasons. Running one of these little souped-up one-man worker bees into one another was an acceptable risk, but ploughing into a ring itself not so much. Pretty much an STL long-hauler community's version of motocross, I guess. The sport proper plays a very minor role in the plot so the specifics aren't made 100% clear. There's also some less involved competition involving individual zero-gee maneuvering skills inside the ships themselves, since transiting between hab-rings is generally done by simply jumping after calculating a route with internal software running on your cybernetics (which are universal-from-childhood, to the point where few things operate manually any more - the POV characters struggle to understand how a hand-cranked plumbing cutoff valve works at one point, they're so used to interfacing with everything wirelessly). Pretty great read for an author's debut (and so far only) scifi novel. tkdguy and Scott Ruggels 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentArthurDent Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 TEQBALL Maybe it’s the post-surgery meds, but it made me think of the Mesoamerican Ballgames. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mball/hd_mball.htm I slipped a ballgame into a 17th C pirate campaign using Fantasy Hero, Justice Inc, and some homemade ship combat inspired by Wooden Ships and Iron Men. It was amazing to see how pirates handled scenarios of ball games, murder mysteries, and political intrigue. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tkdguy Posted April 11 Author Report Share Posted April 11 Something different: https://www.lightpaintingstick.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 A new futuristic sport with a futuristic skyline in the background: DentArthurDent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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