Shopping, Strolling, Playing Go—Congratulations, Vienna!

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Shopping, Strolling, Playing Go—Congratulations, Vienna!

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http://derstandard.at/2000005160319/Sho ... Go-Spielen

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Planned in a pedestrian area in Vienna, Austria; the benches and permission from municipality, table from a private sponsor (a lower five-digit amount (in €, I assume)), weatherproof 42" touchscreens, software being developed by volunteers, use will be free.

Via https://www.facebook.com/groups/extreme ... 587311321/, thank you, Sighris!


I NEED TO MOVE TO VIENNA!!!11

Greetings, Tom
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New age version of the "two guys sitting on a bench in a park and playing board games" thing.

Very nice idea :tmbup:
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I have a feeling some thugs will break this.
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In Spain the glass would be broken within a week... I guess in Vienna people behave properly,so it'll be an extremely fashionable four-in-a-row
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Marcel Grünauer wrote:I've heard it's an 8mm bullet-proof glass. Special table construction and screws as well.


Bullet-proof! I could understand that in the US, but it necessary in Austria?
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Would rain would be channeled down the gap between the two umbrellas to fall on the middle of the board?
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PeterHB wrote:Would rain would be channeled down the gap between the two umbrellas to fall on the middle of the board?



It will.. some idiot engineer didn't seem to notice the obvious :D
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I am that engineer.
Since this is only a computer visualisation to show the look and the concept, modelling such a detail didn't seem necessery within the tight time frame for it. The real table will have the umbrellas connected by a drip rail.

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Dani01 wrote:I am that engineer. :roll: :lol:
Since this is only a computer visualisation to show the look and the concept, modelling such a detail didn't seem necessery within the tight time frame for it. The real table will have the umbrellas connected by a drip rail.

Daniel


I guess we don't need to be in such a hurry to move to Vienna.
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iPhone 6 leaked, screen even longer than previous model.
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Hello Daniel,
Dani01 wrote:I am that engineer.
whoa, cool to have you here, and welcome! Do you play Go yourself?

Since this is only a computer visualisation to show the look and the concept, modelling such a detail didn't seem necessery within the tight time frame for it. The real table will have the umbrellas connected by a drip rail.
Good, and I thought so, seems natural to me to solve it that way.

And I hope to see many more of these, hopefully also in Germany. Dang, if I were rich I’d talk to the mayor of the village I live in and sponsor such a place in the little park right across my place :-D

Herzliche Grüße nach Österreich,

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Bonobo wrote:Hello Daniel,
Dani01 wrote:I am that engineer.
whoa, cool to have you here, and welcome! Do you play Go yourself?

Since this is only a computer visualisation to show the look and the concept, modelling such a detail didn't seem necessery within the tight time frame for it. The real table will have the umbrellas connected by a drip rail.
Good, and I thought so, seems natural to me to solve it that way.

And I hope to see many more of these, hopefully also in Germany. Dang, if I were rich I’d talk to the mayor of the village I live in and sponsor such a place in the little park right across my place :-D

Herzliche Grüße nach Österreich,

Tom


You don't need to be rich. You just need to be persuasive and know the right people.
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Thanks for spreading the word(s) Thomas. I wonder if other cities (or personal interests) could purchase a copy now that the developmental work has been completed? (a Go - worldwide - community effort... the more purchased/made the lower the cost?)
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Isn't it a tad expensive just to save the effort to fetch some boards from the Go centre next door?
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Time flies … meanwhile the Electronic Go Table with two boards has been inaugurated in a pedestrian zone in Vienna, Austria, just outside of the Go Club Go7 (http://goverband.at/wp/?page_id=758).

http://kurier.at/lebensart/kiku/rund-um ... 9.630.047#

Check the photos at the end of the page.

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Congratulations Go7, Vienna, and my deep respect to Daniel, this is a great project, and I hope we will soon see places like this all over the planet!
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