First of all, thank you to all of the pinball streamers out there creating content and sharing your work with the pinball community. It goes without saying that much of your content has opened up the world of pinball to casuals, collectors, and players as a form of entertainment, and objective view on a machine that we couldn't otherwise see or experience.

With that said, I understand that the direct overhead view has become the standard viewing angle when streaming pinball. Bowen with his PAPA tutorials has a "flipper" viewpoint, but I find that hard to see. I've been hoping that a "Player's Perspective" could be explored, instead of just the overhead. This became apparent with the recent streaming of IMDN and ACNC, where a lot of the "3-dimensional" view is lost. We weren't able to see and appreciate the upper playfield for ACNC, and completely missed out on the bullseye target in the back of IMDN. The overhead view removes the layers in a pinball machine.

I think the player's perspective would give us the most realistic view of the game. The overhead viewpoint just doesn't happen in real-life, and the flipper view is only feasible if you are very short (4' tall?). I also understand that during a tournament setting, that the overhead system keeps the equipment out of the way from the players. This might be more feasible for casual streaming, as done by Dead Flip, Owlnonymous, IE Pinball, Buffalo Pinball, etc.

Anyways, hoping that this could be explored and possibly become the new "standard" in streaming pinball.

Necro bumping this thread, since pinball streaming and top-down views were recently discussed by one of the podcasts (Special When Lit?) and about how the top-down view was 2-dimensional and flat. There obviously wasn't any traction when this thread was started a year ago, but with pinball streaming now becoming more popular with game releases, entertainment, and what-not, maybe an "over-the shoulder" view might be explored to display the game in a more 3-dimensional field.

What SDTM did with Wonka was great, being able to give viewers a better perception of physical depth and height to a game. Being able to see actual gameplay with a player's POV would fill in the missing depth and height that a topdown view can't give.