01 / phone as camera
Camera Party
Move in front of the phone’s camera. Your movements become the controls for quick games on Fire TV.
CAMERA-BASED MOTION PLAYONE ROOM. EVERYONE IN.BUILT FOR FIRE TV
a new kind of family game night
npcrew.
your living room, a playground.
amazon build, ship, shape · hackathon prototype · 2026
01 / the living room
the compute is
already at home.
Fire TV and the phones in your hands work together. Move, team up, and take on quick challenges with the people on your couch.
NPCREW / PARTY ROOMCREW READY ●
bring your
whole crew.
whole crew.
ONE SCREEN. A ROOM FULL OF MAIN CHARACTERS.
YOU
☺✚ ●YOUR FRIEND
☺✚ ●01 scan to join
02 move or use your phone
03 play together
02 / two ways to play
small games.
big reactions.
Your phone is the camera. Or your phone is the controller. Everyone plays on the TV.
02 / phone as controller
Paper Party
Move, jump, and solve little puzzles together. Your phone controls a paper character—with your face right in the action.
PHONE CONTROLS + LIVE FACE CAMERA03 / more than a controller
that’s not a player.
that’s your brother.
Put a real face in the action. See who’s winning, who’s panicking, and who just stole your moment.
You already own a touchscreen, camera, and motion sensors. Together, they make your phone part of the party. Buttons and live faces are the starting point; drawing games and shared challenges are next.
NPCREW / PLAYER 01 ●
YOUR FACE GOES HERE
READY WHEN YOU ARE
A LITTLE CONTROLLER. A LOT OF PERSONALITY.
Optional camera preview. Stays in this browser; nothing is uploaded.
the reason to play
less looking down.
more cracking up.
04 / under the hood
one experience.
two ways to compute.
Use the devices together: phones capture movement and player input; Fire TV brings everyone onto one screen. Tracking can run on the phone or the TV.
camera phonecaptures camera input
CAMERA INPUT⟶
Fire TVprocesses movement + renders game
Fire TV compute puts motion processing beside the game. Device testing determines which TVs can comfortably handle that workload.
- TV
- React Native TV · Expo · Skia
- phones
- React · Vite · browser controllers
- connection
- Fastify · WebSockets · shared TypeScript messages
- motion
- camera tracking · MediaPipe
- AI content
- Amazon Bedrock · Nova 2 Lite
- host speech
- Amazon Polly
PROTOTYPE ARCHITECTURE · hardware performance and live-service deployment require separate validation.
05 / the next chapter
your house.
your rules.
your game.
Next: families help make their own mini-games, built around their ideas, inside jokes, and house rules.
FUTURE CONCEPT / AI-ASSISTED CREATION
“Make us a space game.
Dad is the alien.
No one trusts the donuts.”
06 / demo & project links
see it together.
the game night, on film.
Demo video coming soon.
FIRE TV DEMO · VIDEO LINK PENDINGproject submissionDevpost · draft until submitted↗source & setupGitHub · reviewer access required↗developer feedbackGitHub · reviewer access required↗friction logGitHub · reviewer access required↗
prototype & testing notes
This page is a public presentation with illustrative browser demos. The Fire TV app is a separate build. Its repository contains source, assets, setup instructions, and AWS integration notes. Hardware performance and live AWS deployment still need verification for the final demo.
The video space will hold the real demonstration once published. Source and development documents currently require repository access; this page does not change those permissions.