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It's amazing what they were able to do in six weeks by customizing the inputs of an off the shelf game. The presentation is a bit obnoxious, but it's a cool setup nonetheless.
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Well I imagine the most expensive components are the video tent and the omnidirectional treadmill, which are surely expensive, but everything else can pretty much be bought at Amazon, no? Paintguns, iPhones, computers, motion sensors, cables, etc., combined with some cheap software and elbow grease to network it all together. I can't imagine that a show like this would have a budget in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a one time project to air on a single episode.
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thenewgreen · 4685 days ago · link ·
I imagine the most expensive components are the video tent and the omnidirectional treadmill. -Absolutely but if you had them built for you, they would easily cost $100k+. Easily, imo.
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Even the video tent is just a handful of networked projectors and what looks like a camping tent -- that can't cost much more than a few thousand dollars. I don't really have any real metric for judging the cost of the treadmill, though. But still -- this looks like a rather vanilla web show, so I doubt that they have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on hobby projects.
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thenewgreen · 4684 days ago · link ·
I think the bulk of the costs would come from the custom built multi-directional treadmill. But the producers of this segment didn't have to pay for squat. There were plenty of free plugs for all involved. I'd be surprised if they paid (out of pocket) for much of the novelty equipment in the shoot.