Microsofts illumi Room

http://kotaku.com/5974616/microsofts-illumiroom-concept-turns-your-entire-room-into-a-video-game-level

What do you think SW? Will this enrich your gaming experience?

If it comes with Built in Psycho Mantis I'm sold.

looks distracting more than anything.

If it comes with Built in Psycho Mantis I'm sold.

Mozuckint

umm. cool idea. question if it really works... They claim the video is video with no special effected added but we see...k2theswiss

It's a some what cool idea. But I'm doubting the authenticity of it. Unless it is using kinect 2.0, the Kinect woudl not eb able to read the part of the room behind the television.

Cool idea. Reminds me of that holodeck thing Sony did awhile back.

I can't imagine this really working all that well, though. It doesn't even work that well in the video due to all the furniture.

It's a projector you attach to the ceiling...nice and effective PR though. Should fool masses into thinking a Kinect alone did that. For those of you not fooled, congrats because that means I'm not talking about you.

Of course, it's a decent concept (although I'm do sincerely wonder if this could be distracting, the jury is out), but having set up my livingroom 7.1 Surround Sound and Plasma setup. My family room 5.1 and LED setup, multiple friends livingrooms, my PC 5.1 room...I know what it would take to accomplish this, and this concept is not what we currently have available to us in the form of Software/hardware peripherals.

As far as concepts go, it's interesting, but a long ways off and probably won't happen. This concept isn't new to gamers, Sony unveiled something similar a few years back. Sony Holodeck w/eyetoy PR concept.

It's not for me, but those of you that are excited, I linked it above.

This news was already revealed at Gamespot.com btw, seemingly hours ago.

It's a projector you attach to the ceiling...nice and effective PR though.

This was already revealed at Gamespot.com btw.

SolidTy

I think it would distract me a lot, but I still like where it is going.
I kinda see this as something similar as 3D screens.
Not yet very practical, but in time a building block to something really cool.

Amazing concept and an increase in immersion if properly implemented....in B4 gimmicky...rumble might have been considered gimmicky at one time but gamers rightly forced sony's hand on their attempt to remove it...Bring on next gen and fvck all of you counter revolutionaries

If it worked, it would be cool. However something tells me this is just another deceiving footage just like the Kinect anouncement trailer

Microsoft already made it possible for me to game without using a controller and now my room is going to be a game level... hell fvcking yes.

Praise Microsoft!

Unless there's some trickery going on, it cannot work the way that video shows.

Assuming the TV screen is 1080p, the projector (which is stupid by the way - who's going to purchase a projectore that shines on a TV just for this cr@p?) appears to be rendering the game at 4x resoltuion or so.

A console is NOT going to render a 4k game. Sorry. Not even next gen.

Thinking about this it might not be rendering a 4K image so much as just stretching the 720p signal across the entire wall instead. Still not likely to be performance friendly.

Unless there's some trickery going on, it cannot work the way that video shows.

Assuming the TV screen is 1080p, the projector (which is stupid by the way - who's going to purchase a projectore that shines on a TV just for this cr@p?) appears to be rendering the game at 4x resoltuion or so.

A console is NOT going to render a 4k game. Sorry. Not even next gen.

Thinking about this it might not be rendering a 4K image so much as just stretching the 720p signal across the entire wall instead. Still not likely to be performance friendly.

Like Kinect, this tech looks like it could be cool... several iterations after the initial design.

Call me when there's real 3D gaming. I'm not interested in having a projector image around my TV, just like how most of us won't be interested in Kinect until it has true 1:1.

[QUOTE="spiderluck"][QUOTE="Cuddlechu"]Pathetic and hardly innovative. Nintendo did AR first. Then $ony copied with the Vita. Now Microsoft comes how late?Cuddlechu

DO you even know what you are saying?

1: do you even know what innovate means? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innovate

2: made it easy for you^

3: illumi is invention that expands whats on t.vs on walls by allowing devs to add special effects... WHO has done that yet?

It looks cool to me. I could see myself using it.

looks distracting more than anything.

CaseyWegner

Too gimicky sounding.LustForSoul

WOW looks very cool, had no plans for nextbox but now i want to get one:cry:

Nintendo the "inovation master" why didn't you come up with this??:(

I'm kinda interested in this actually... most probably will buy but it depends on the price tag of course.
Still wondering though, what's the best room set up in order for it work properly or it doesn't really matter?

I would like to try it out, it looks cool, but I think overall it would just be a major distraction. Pretty much like stereo 3d gaming.

It's cool, but doesn't it say in the owner's manual to play in a well-lit room? :Pblabbyboy

Good point !

Ewww imaging your whole room RROD'ing. No thanks.kuraimen

This made my day !!! :D

It's probably another piece of vaporware, and the PC already has something better:

Amazing concept and an increase in immersion if properly implemented....in B4 gimmicky...rumble might have been considered gimmicky at one time but gamers rightly forced sony's hand on their attempt to remove it...Bring on next gen and fvck all of you counter revolutionaries

spiderluck