Microsoft Illumiroom uses Kinect, projector to fill room with images

Microsoft and Samsung demonstrated a new display technology called Illumiroom at the Consumer Electronics Show. True to its name, the Microsoft Research project illuminates a room with lights and images designed to complement what players see on their television while...

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This hurt my eyes watching much less playing tht stupid Kinect.

A lot of that gameplay looked ungodly laggy. I doubt the current Xbox could handle this.

I think it looks pretty cool. If it can be done with a low powered, inexpensive projector, I'd be game for it.

Very distracting....!!!

I think the idea sounds really cool.

Or you could just use the projector to have a much bigger environment without a TV in the middle of it? I feel MS are trying a bit too hard to make the Kinect seem like a futuristic swiss army knife...

Most people don't have giant blank walls to make use of a projector like that. Plus, a high res, good projector is NOT cheap. People already have TVs, they don't want to dish out a ton for a new projector. Depending on how MS achieves this, hopefully it can be done with an inexpensive, low res projector that doesn't suck up too much power.

Abandon the 3D gimmick and move onto the next one

Cool, I want one!

That's about as annoying as it gets. I'll pass...

Seems like a living room version of what Disney started doing to the Castle in the Magic Kingdom at Disneyworld and to The exterior or It's a Small World in Disneyland but in real time. If so, this has the potential to have a huge effect on home entertainment in general and without seeing it in person, it's really difficult to grasp how.

I agree I have a slanted ceiling in my room and multiple corners. its not a huge perfect square. plus this just looks dumb. kinect already failed miserably on the 360 once the jumping/dancing gimmicky games wore off in 30 seconds. ms payed some dev to put some lame voice recognition in games so they could slap a better with kinect label on it. problem is you can do voice recognition with a the free mic that comes with xbox. anyone play end war? ms needs to just admit they jumped on the motion control fad to late when even nintendo was desperately trying to distance itself from the little kid motion control shovel ware garbage. time to ditch the kinect. why waste money putting kinect on the next xbox when that money could be much better spent on a gpu, cpu, memory or something that will actually help with gameplay.

Kinect failed miserably... LOL

This looks awesome to me. If I still had an xbox, I'd be all over that. Sure, a lot of people don't have their TV aligned on a square wall, but a lot of people don't have big TV's or optimal viewing spaces without windows and blah blah blah... when has it ever been the responsibility of the product designer to make it work in your living room? You rearrange your space when you upgrade your home theater system and need to put in a sub, tower speakers, and satellite speakers... You don't complain to Yamaha for not making their speakers fit in your house.

Or, for better experience - just use a decent projector on the wall.

It might be time to tidy my front room . I have dreamt of the day holorooms became a reality . A good first step

This looks awesome. I want the immersive gaming experience. Sign me up!

You've missed the point. This gives you a wider peripheral view. Filling an entire wall with a 1920x1080 projector is still 1920x1080.

This looks very cool. I'd like to see how it would integrate with movies and such as well.

I'm all over this baby!!