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Post: Xbox Illumiroom - Your Living Room Becomes the Game
01-11-2013, 02:15 AM #1
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); During Samsung’s keynote at CES today, Microsoft unveiled IllumiRoom, a new technology that turns the entire room around your TV into an extension of the screen. As explained on Microsoft’s official site, IllumiRoom uses Kinect and a projector “to blur the lines between on-screen content and the environment we live in allowing us to combine our virtual and physical worlds.”

Microsoft explains that IllumiRoom “augments the area surrounding a television screen with projected visualizations to enhance the traditional living room entertainment experience” and “can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences." Kinect captures the geometry of a room and adapts projected visuals “in real-time without any need to custom pre-process the graphics.”







In a video demo shown off during Samsung’s keynote, Microsoft showed off several different applications of the technology, noting that the footage was “captured live and is not the result of any special effects added in post production.”
IllumiRoom appears to be the realization of the immersive display experience Microsoft patented last year, which aimed to make gaming “more realistic” and eliminating “out of context images” that sit next to your TV.

Whether or not IllumiRoom will tie-in with next Xbox or the next generation of Kinectremains to be seen, but Microsoft says more details will be revealed at the ACM SIGCHI Conference in Paris in April.


I myself think is this truly amazing! I hope Microsoft do tie IllumiRoom in with the next Xbox as this will add something the Playstation won't have on its list of things.
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01-11-2013, 11:32 AM #2
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I don't own a xbox.
does that make me a scrub?
01-11-2013, 11:32 AM #3
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wow :O ...
01-11-2013, 11:47 AM #4
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Originally posted by Phaggot View Post
I don't own a xbox.
does that make me a scrub?


Maybe you should think about getting the new Xbox if this will be included with it. Pretty good huh?
01-11-2013, 11:56 AM #5
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Originally posted by Alt View Post
Maybe you should think about getting the new Xbox if this will be included with it. Pretty good huh?


yeah, i'll consider it. Smile
Kind of getting bored of sony.
01-11-2013, 12:04 PM #6
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Originally posted by Phaggot View Post
yeah, i'll consider it. Smile
Kind of getting bored of sony.


I haven't been on my PS3 in ages, I'm always playing my Xbox as it just feels better.

Can't wait for the new Xbox and Playstation to come out though, looks like I'll get both Happy
01-11-2013, 12:26 PM #7
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I would love something like this! Makes my ambilight look shit.

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01-11-2013, 01:44 PM #8
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me aswell shit.....

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niceeeee.... bumpppp
01-11-2013, 06:21 PM #9
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Looks like Microsoft is working on getting the player in to the game if you know what I mean?
01-11-2013, 07:44 PM #10
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Originally posted by pJeffJones View Post
Looks like Microsoft is working on getting the player in to the game if you know what I mean?


Yeah I know what you mean.

I rather this than 3D TV's and stuff.

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