Microsoft Illumiroom - Bringing Ancient Roman orgies to your living room. One step at a time.

[Rorschach120]

Just the idea of having objective markers show up around my room makes me want this. I could also imagine the augmented reality illusion being used when: combine overlords show up in HL3, the aoe bi*ches in KF, shouts in Skyrim. Ah man I could see this being used with style and not being implemented until certain points in the game to blow your mind. Like G-man suddenly walking out of your television.

This may not be Occulus but it is way more legit for people who have not-so-geeky friends, like me. IDK if anyone saw those supposedly leaked xbox 720 documents. It suggests holographic images being projected almost anywhere in your living room. I could see them adapting Illumiroom to use stereoscopic 3D and actually making this happen!

 

[Vegeta897]

That's really damn cool. Too bad the compensation part won't be very accurate if you move your head to a different position. The reality distortion and other 'real life' effects are awesome. This could be immersive as ****.

This is more exciting to me than the Occulus. Though I'd be more interested in the Occulus if it had higher resolution and wasn't a big clunky thing on your head.

 

[Remus]

I'll just leave this here:

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-reasons-youd-never-use-microsofts-new-gaming-device/

 

[Vegeta897]

That's kind of overly cynical. Yeah, the device isn't for everyone, but it doesn't have to be. The same concept applies to a lot of peripherals these days, like the Kinect, or even things like flight controls.

And I think attacking the quality of it is pretty unfair considering they're looking at a shaky cam video of a video. The quality doesn't have to be top notch either, it's not about extending your screen, but rather adding peripheral features that you don't necessarily even need to look directly at.

 

[Remus]

I'm sure it could be pretty nice if you can set up a good environment for it. However, personally I'll get myself a rift when it gets better, probably the second generation.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Um, there's a non-shaky cam version. I'd already seen it elsewhere so I just assumed that link would be it, but.

 

[Toro]

Its cool, but wouldn't VR (Oculus rift) be better? Cause it looks wierd how the furniture is there.

 

[Vegeta897]

Kind of two different things.

 

[Bad^Hat]

On the other hand, imagine a head-mounted projector with positional tracking like the Rift. If the image matched up closely enough with your movements, the game world would appear to remain static on the wall in front of you as you moved your view. It'd be like you were opening up... well, a rift to another world.

Of course, you'd also need to be sitting in a ****ing sphere for it to really work, so. Fake edit: UNLESS you used the Kinect functionality to alter the image dynamically depending on how distant each point was from you, thus compensating for angled surfaces! Sorted. Brb gotta go buy an Illumiroom and a sturdy velcro strap.

Also, not entirely relevant to the thread, but as long as we're talking about impractical but neat gaming interfaces.

 

[ríomhaire]

That's some cool shit. I love gaming gadgets. The expanding the FOV to the whole wall it's great IMO but as Rorschach said things like distortions at certain events is cool and I also really like the environment-based ones like the snowing and the lighting.