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“uses the appearance and the geometry of the room  to adapt the projected visuals in real-time without any need to custom pre-process the graphics.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1EatGRV0w

Kinda gimicky, but cool at the same time.  I would only trust this in the hands of some trully talented people.

Its kind of like 3D Movies.  When James Cameron does it, it looks great.  When some random action flick uses it, it induces nausea and headaches.

Why not just get a projector screen and play that way?  Am I missing something?

Like you said though, I am curious to see how this evolves years from now.

As someone who uses Eyefinity, I wouldn't find that distracting or tough to get used to at all.  I find it an impressive tech that will likely be inexpensive and easy to use with multiple options per game.

It would be distracting if you were playing a game and trying to stare at your walls while doing so.  As someone who has used eyefintiy for years now I know that when you want to see something in the peripheral display area, you move the view of the game (camera, reticle) towards that direction.

People said Eyefinity was distracting because they were staring at a far corner of the side monitor and didn't like that.  They are the ones who had never played with it though, and didn't understand that you don't play a game by staring off into space.

Just like in real life when you want to see something in the peripheral view of your sight, you move your sights focus to center it.  You look left, for example.  Most people do not drive cars by staring out the passenger window the entire time, just as in Eyefinity and IllumiRoom you wouldn't play Forza by staring at your bookshelves.

What the tech does is add a bit of fun immersion, a bit more extension to the game world depending on settings probably.

There are some who are very quick to say "Just get a projector same thing hurrrrrrrrrrr" and those are the people I would love to invite over and have them rearrange my furniture so that I had a place for a projector.

A projector is NOT the same thing.  Neither is a bigger TV.

A projector would have your minimap in the corner of the room near the floor, illumiroom has it in the corner of the tv with the game world extending.

A 100" Ultra High Definition TV would be great, but it still could not make snowflakes appear to be falling where my bookshelves are.

This illumiroom keeps the game UI where its been, lets you toggle effects per game, and on and off, and extends additional viewable effects to the room without horrible distortion, without rearranging your furniture.

Originally posted by Maephisto

Why not just get a projector screen and play that way?  Am I missing something?

Use a projector in the room featured in that video without rearranging furniture.  Then try to find your non-distorted UI elements like the corner minimap, ammo count, health display, depending on game.

Do you think that'd be the same as what you saw?

First step towards a holodeck experience.

Might be just a little gimmick right now.. but it's opening new possibilities.

Originally posted by kadepsyson

As someone who uses Eyefinity, I wouldn't find that distracting or tough to get used to at all.  I find it an impressive tech that will likely be inexpensive and easy to use with multiple options per game.

 

It would be distracting if you were playing a game and trying to stare at your walls while doing so.  As someone who has used eyefintiy for years now I know that when you want to see something in the peripheral display area, you move the view of the game (camera, reticle) towards that direction.

 

People said Eyefinity was distracting because they were staring at a far corner of the side monitor and didn't like that.  They are the ones who had never played with it though, and didn't understand that you don't play a game by staring off into space.

 

Just like in real life when you want to see something in the peripheral view of your sight, you move your sights focus to center it.  You look left, for example.  Most people do not drive cars by staring out the passenger window the entire time, just as in Eyefinity and IllumiRoom you wouldn't play Forza by staring at your bookshelves.

 

What the tech does is add a bit of fun immersion, a bit more extension to the game world depending on settings probably.

 

There are some who are very quick to say "Just get a projector same thing hurrrrrrrrrrr" and those are the people I would love to invite over and have them rearrange my furniture so that I had a place for a projector.

A projector is NOT the same thing.  Neither is a bigger TV.

A projector would have your minimap in the corner of the room near the floor, illumiroom has it in the corner of the tv with the game world extending.

A 100" Ultra High Definition TV would be great, but it still could not make snowflakes appear to be falling where my bookshelves are.

 

This illumiroom keeps the game UI where its been, lets you toggle effects per game, and on and off, and extends additional viewable effects to the room without horrible distortion, without rearranging your furniture.

Not everyone is the same, especially with regards to visuals. Im sure some will find it more annoying and distracting than usefull or neat.

Originally posted by Kuppa

Originally posted by kadepsyson

As someone who uses Eyefinity, I wouldn't find that distracting or tough to get used to at all.  I find it an impressive tech that will likely be inexpensive and easy to use with multiple options per game.

 

It would be distracting if you were playing a game and trying to stare at your walls while doing so.  As someone who has used eyefintiy for years now I know that when you want to see something in the peripheral display area, you move the view of the game (camera, reticle) towards that direction.

 

People said Eyefinity was distracting because they were staring at a far corner of the side monitor and didn't like that.  They are the ones who had never played with it though, and didn't understand that you don't play a game by staring off into space.

 

Just like in real life when you want to see something in the peripheral view of your sight, you move your sights focus to center it.  You look left, for example.  Most people do not drive cars by staring out the passenger window the entire time, just as in Eyefinity and IllumiRoom you wouldn't play Forza by staring at your bookshelves.

 

What the tech does is add a bit of fun immersion, a bit more extension to the game world depending on settings probably.

 

There are some who are very quick to say "Just get a projector same thing hurrrrrrrrrrr" and those are the people I would love to invite over and have them rearrange my furniture so that I had a place for a projector.

A projector is NOT the same thing.  Neither is a bigger TV.

A projector would have your minimap in the corner of the room near the floor, illumiroom has it in the corner of the tv with the game world extending.

A 100" Ultra High Definition TV would be great, but it still could not make snowflakes appear to be falling where my bookshelves are.

 

This illumiroom keeps the game UI where its been, lets you toggle effects per game, and on and off, and extends additional viewable effects to the room without horrible distortion, without rearranging your furniture.

Not everyone is the same, especially with regards to visuals. Im sure some will find it more annoying and distracting than usefull or neat.

Yes you are right.  I was mainly writing with regards to people who had never even tried anything like it but wrote it off immediately for the wrong reasons.  If you try something like Eyefinity and hate it, find it motion-sickness inducing, then this illumiroom would probably not be good, true.

Some would find it that way, others of course would enjoy it.

However depending on the game and settings, I'm sure the snowflake mario kart (nintendo game in MS demo!) bit wouldn't be so bad.

Reminds me of a home adaptation of the CAVE concept.

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Kuppa

 

Not everyone is the same, especially with regards to visuals. Im sure some will find it more annoying and distracting than usefull or neat.

Yes you are right.  I was mainly writing with regards to people who had never even tried anything like it but wrote it off immediately for the wrong reasons.  If you try something like Eyefinity and hate it, find it motion-sickness inducing, then this illumiroom would probably not be good, true.

Some would find it that way, others of course would enjoy it.

However depending on the game and settings, I'm sure the snowflake mario kart (nintendo game in MS demo!) bit wouldn't be so bad.

That mario kart one was the coolest!

Originally posted by Kuppa

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Kuppa

 

Not everyone is the same, especially with regards to visuals. Im sure some will find it more annoying and distracting than usefull or neat.

Yes you are right.  I was mainly writing with regards to people who had never even tried anything like it but wrote it off immediately for the wrong reasons.  If you try something like Eyefinity and hate it, find it motion-sickness inducing, then this illumiroom would probably not be good, true.

Some would find it that way, others of course would enjoy it.

However depending on the game and settings, I'm sure the snowflake mario kart (nintendo game in MS demo!) bit wouldn't be so bad.

That mario kart one was the coolest!

That wasn't Mario Kart.. just throwing that out there!

The last one looked the best to me. Where shooting the gun caused vibration effects across the room.

Can't even get kinnect to properly recognize gestures, I'm so sure this will work great.  It hinges on proper room scanning, that and probably a really expensive projector.

And I assume games have to support this as well.

Originally posted by Kuppa

 

That mario kart one was the coolest!

Is that a snow pun?

Yeah I liked that one as well though.  It was a very simple effect - just generic snowflakes falling around the room.  Simple, but probably the least distracting one and still would probably get onlookers to say "wow, that's cool"

Originally posted by Vannor

That mario kart one was the coolest!

That wasn't Mario Kart.. just throwing that out there!

Ah ok.  So what game was it?  I saw what looked like karts and a banana peel in the road.  If you know the actual game though, why not tell us?

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Vannor

That mario kart one was the coolest!

That wasn't Mario Kart.. just throwing that out there!

Ah ok.  So what game was it?  I saw what looked like karts and a banana peel in the road.  If you know the actual game though, why not tell us?

No idea what game it was :)

Originally posted by Vannor

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Vannor

That mario kart one was the coolest!

That wasn't Mario Kart.. just throwing that out there!

Ah ok.  So what game was it?  I saw what looked like karts and a banana peel in the road.  If you know the actual game though, why not tell us?

No idea what game it was :)

Ok.  Well did you know the one with what appeared to be a Needler wasn't any kind of Halo game too?

I know it wasn't Halo despite looking like it, but have no idea what game it would be.

Very sweet.

But I noticed that 1st person still shows no nose, glasses, arms, feet. No peripheral vision displayed at all, which is what bugs me about 1st person.