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Strike a Pose, with the whole room.

Add a webcam to a screen in your hall and everyone in front of it can play. The TV shows a pose, counts down, and says how many people got it right. Guests don't need their phones.

Camera games need an Android TV box with a USB webcam. Screens without a camera simply skip them.

TV: Strike a Pose, round 1 of 3. Nine children with skeletons drawn on them; those with both hands up glow green. The pose card says Hands up! and the countdown shows 3.
Round 1, three seconds left. Everyone the camera sees gets a skeleton. People already doing the pose turn green.

Four ways to use the camera

What guests see

Result after a round: 2 of 9 nailed it!
Strike a pose. One to eight rounds from seven crowd-friendly poses. Each round shows how many of the people in view did it, and the game ends with a crowd score.
Live mirror: the room shown mirrored with glowing skeletons, raised arms in orange, and the caption Welcome to Priya & Rahul's wedding! Wave hello.
Live mirror. The screen becomes a mirror with skeletons and your caption. Wave at it and a pose game starts.
Poll with the banner Raise your hand for Bollywood, 3.
The same poll after counting: 9 hands counted.
Hands-up vote. Any poll or trivia question with up to four answers can be voted on by raising a hand. Hand counts are added to the phone votes.
Phone app: the Count audience switch, with the note that counting happens on the TV and no pictures are stored or sent.
Audience counter. Switch it on for a screen and analytics shows how many people watched each of your adverts. Off until an admin turns it on.

Anatomy of a game

Nine seconds a round

Every round has the same rhythm, so guests pick it up after one go. The game's length is known in advance, so it fits into a playlist like a video does.

  1. Lobby: Wave at the screen to start, with the three poses listed.
    Lobbywave or 10 s

    Guests see themselves and the poses coming up. A wave starts it straight away.

  2. Pose card for round 1: a stick figure with both hands up.
    Pose card1.5 s

    A stick figure and a one-line hint.

  3. Countdown showing 3.
    Countdown4 s

    4, 3, 2, 1. Skeletons turn green as people get it right.

  4. FREEZE! with a camera emoji.
    Freeze1.5 s

    Everyone holds still while it's scored: the moment for photos.

  5. Result: 2 of 9 nailed it!
    Result2 s

    The count also appears in the phone app.

  6. Finale: crowd score, best round, and each round's result.
    Finale8 s

    The crowd score, the best round and every round's result.

length = 10 s lobby + 9 s × rounds + 8 s finale → 3 rounds = 45 s, 5 rounds = 63 s

The pose catalog

Seven poses a crowd can do

Poses are judged on the upper body, because in a crowd the legs are hidden behind the row in front. They're measured in shoulder widths, so they work for guests near the screen and at the back.

Privacy

The camera counts. It doesn't record.

  • Every frame is analysed on the TV, in memory, and discarded. Only numbers like "2 of 9" leave the TV.
  • While the camera is on, the screen says "Camera on · nothing is recorded".
  • Audience counting is off until an admin switches it on, one screen at a time.
  • The detection library's usage statistics are switched off.

Built for crowds

Tested on real group photos

PhotoPeopleResult
Sports team, standing1312 found, no false poses
Gym class, arms up103 raised hands, 2 "Hands up!"
People at work33 found, nothing invented
Large crowd, far awaydozens16 found, the per-frame limit

Limits

  • Up to 16 people are scored per frame; guests far from the camera can be missed. A wide-angle webcam at head height helps.
  • Fire TV sticks have no camera port. They still play hands-up polls as phone polls.

Screenshots are real screens from the TV player and phone app. No webcam was attached when they were taken, so the camera picture is a public-domain photo of a school gym class (US Marine Corps, Wikimedia Commons).