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This is pretty cool stuff.

I can't help thinking how ridiculous it looks having that unwieldy HDMI breakout adapter hanging off the side of the iPad. A wifi connection between the iPad and TV would be so much more elegant.

If this can be achieved using AirPlay with AppleTV it will be something even at 720p. We will get a whole new gaming market.

A swift kick in the pants...

This is nice to see in iOS games... Looking forward for more implements...

It would be more elegant, but we need to consider the max bit rate and latency that would occur from pushing this content over your homes WiFi, through a router and into an AppleTV to process. Even over 802.11n I worry about this being an issue.

That said, I think there is plenty of room for incorporating the iOS-based iDevices used in a home with an AppleTV over WiFi and hope that Apple will be surprising us with an AppleTV SDK and App Store this year.

Perhaps its still too soon to have an HD racing game with 4 drivers all using their iOS-based iDevices to drive while the main screen is transmitting 4 different section, one for each drivers car, but thinking smaller, displaying stats of a race and an overhead view of the track on the HDTV would likely allow for 1080p content with only the simplistic data of position on track and stats being relayed to the AppleTV to project in real time.

There are plenty of other games that would be better suited for a family environment and be very simple to make. Scrabble has already done this with the iPad. You can use a single iPad for the game board and iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads as the 4 tile boards. You flick the letters to the main board and then arrange them. It even remembers what side of the board you are on after you rotate the screen once on your turn. This and many other games seems like it would be trivial to adapt to this model.

Somehow it seems to me to need a steering wheel! It does look fun on a large HDTV screen! Come a long way since playing Atari's River Raid with my Dad.

And I agree, I think the HDMI adaptor looks rather inelegant for an Apple product. Although, Apple has a penchant for selling all sorts of adaptors for $30-$40.

The iPad 3 no doubt will have an HDMI port.

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It won't really take off this way over a wire, air play on the other hand.... Well that's a different story all together.

If Apple gets Air Play to support this then they will have a big gaming win on their hands, wouldn't hurt Apple TV sales either!

Unfortunately, WiFi cannot accommodate anywhere near enough bandwidth to transmit a 1080p signal to a separate device. AirPlay works by buffering the file to another device, not by sending the decoded a/v signal to the device. I don't think any wireless protocol is available to the consumer that can accommodate what an HDMI cable can do, but in any case, it would be impossible over AirPlay.

Invent a Leather Band to wrap around the iPad, covering the black bezel... Yep... Fine Leather, that'll get you feeling like your behind the steering wheel of a high performance vehicle!

Apple has the "Smart Cover"... This can be called the "Racing Cover"!
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I am so jealous. When I was a kid all we had was Pong.

Unless the game plays on AppleTV with a controller client on the iPad, iPod, or iPhone.