The World Series of ‘Tubing is a collaborative project by Eyebeam Senior Fellow Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers.

From Jeff Crouse:

YouTube War is an augmented reality card game that is played in front of a live audience. Before each game, in an offstage bullpen, two players select seven videos that make up their initial hand. They are each given a special YouTube War visor and 7 YouTube War cards.  Each card is custom-printed with the YouTube War logo on the back and a YouTube player frame on the front.  A special marker is in each frame that can be detected by the webcam mounted above the table. The players take their seats at a poker table and and look into their private monitor, where they see their 7 videos playing on their cards. An announcer introduces each player and asks them some questions about their life, a la Jeopardy.

The player who loses the coin toss (Player A) puts down the first card. On a large projection behind the players, the video plays on Player A’s as if it were attached. Player A then draws another card from the deck, which plays a random YouTube video which they can see in her private monitor.  Player B then chooses and throws down one of his cards, which also plays in the large projection, and draws a card from the deck. At that point, there is a 10 second pause as the audience members cast their vote (using audience response paddles) for which video is better.  These paddles will either be rented, bought, or borrowed from a group such as nTag.

Whoever wins the audiences approval takes the 2 cards and puts them in a discard pile on their side.  This process repeats until the deck is gone.  Whoever has the most cards at the end is the winner.

During the game, commentators provide a running commentary on the game much like during a football or World Series of Poker game. Hopefully we will have time to integrate some cool motion graphics stuff to present stats, biographical info, etc.

We will set up a tournament tree at the beginning of the evening and play through until we find a winner.

Jeff Crouse previously created YouThreebe (You3b), an online tool where users can create triptychs of YouTube videos and share them with their friends.

Aaron Meyers also created YouCube:

It allows you to map YouTube videos onto an interactive 3D cube and then save it to a database so you can show your friends. As you spin around a YouCube, the sounds of the different videos fade in and out.