Friday, January 9, 2015

Extending the Gaming Experience with IllumiRoom, Microsoft Research


IllumiRoom is a Microsoft Research concept to enhance the gaming experiences of the hardcore gamers. What it does is, it augments the area surrounding your television screen with the projected rays to enhance the living room entertainment experience.


How it works ?

IllumiRoom system uses a kinect for Windows camera and a projector to blur the line between on-screen content and the environment we live in, combining our virtual world with the physical world.

Like for example, the IllumiRoom can change the appearance of our room, extend the field of view and will enable a new gaming experience.

It uses this kinect technology  for Windows camera to capture the geometry of the room and automatically adapt the projected visual in real-time.

You can see the image below which has been captured live and is not the result of any special effects added in post production.



You can watch the video below to see how it works:





The IllumiRoom will definitely increase the gaming experience of hard core gamers, by extending the image on your TV screen by projecting visuals onto the walls of your living room and will make you feel like you are inside the game you are playing.

What you gamers out there think of this Microsoft Research concept?


Source : Microsoft Research 

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