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Microsoft has an IllumiRoom project that projects images onto the entire wall of your room. It’s pretty crazy, when you’re playing video games, the IllumiRoom will show you what’s happening around you on the screen too. Basically, you get what giant wall TV for playing video games. Could this be part of the next Xbox?
As IllumiRoom is only a research project, we shouldn’t expect to see it in our living rooms anytime soon, but the video was made in real time and captured live. The video above wasn’t special effects wizardry. Supposedly, IllumiRoom uses the Kinect to get the geometry of the room you’re in, and then uses a projector to adapt the extra visual to your wall. It definitely makes for a more immersive gaming experience, you feel as if you’re inside the world of the video game. It not out of the realms of possibility that this kind of tech could sneak into the next generation consoles at some point. IllumiRoom could make the Xbox 720 or whatever, absolutely killer. [Microsoft Research via Engadget]
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I kind of like the idea that the projected sections would be used for your periphery visuals, items off screen, bullets zipping past, snow/rain/leaves. Keeping the main action in crisp HD is a must.
Indeed – having the periphery act like a periphery! Pretty nice idea.
I’m not convinced, that looks crazy hard to concentrate on what you actually need to do!
not really, the TV will always stick out more due to the brightness.
True, I play mw3 pretty much everyday (good hobby
) and don’t think I’ll notice anything other than tv, playing on a HD projector is way better than this.
Totally buying this!
I can see this working amazingly well, though may work better with a larger TV so you’re better focussed on the main action. However it’s a great idea!
That would actually be a really cool use for Kinect – although it’d need to be facing in the opposite direction for it to work properly.
It’s like what they did at BBC TV Centre here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20688433
The making of bit showed how they started with a 3D scan of the building.
Since it’s only peripheral vision stuff (presumably with a black rectangle in the projected data left for the screen), it could maybe even be done with a cheapo pico projector.
They ‘are’ using a Kinect for this.
With 2 Kinect’s one forward facing and one backward, you could even play Kinect games like it. Actually thinking about it, you could do this with a single Kinect and after the room scan is done, you could just move the Kinect back to the front position. Bit of hassle, but possible for those without 2 Kinects.
oh she is gunna hate the fact that now i will need to clear a whole wall for this.. haha.. also love the “floating Gun” look..
and then you install one of those games that makes you feel sick from running round and BAM your head explodes
as someone who has a wall dedicated to an inset TV and speakers hidden in alcoves this could be cool. might make me jump ship to MS.
i like the idea that they dont try to put a full colour image onto the wall as this wouldnt work in a home cinema environment as we usually have much darker colour wall surrounding the screen (mine is a deep plumb colour)
Microsoft saw this – http://youtu.be/VrgWH1KUDt4
Realised Sony hadn’t patented it then ran with it.
If I had an HD projector, I wouldn’t be playing games on my TV.
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