So, Microsoft’s new console, X-Box 720 (?), might be coming with something called IllumiRoom which will scan the room the console is located in and project “accurate” additional features onto the walls around the television.
Here’s a video from Microsoft of its concept in action.
Thoughts?
Give me a fucking controller, and make a console that won’t nuke itself in five minutes with three red rings. I don’t care about all of this visual fluff, I don’t care about social connectivity, and I don’t care to publish all of my achievements to my facebook news feed to show off my lack of a life. I just want a box that plays games that won’t break.
Evidently, in the 21st century, this is too much to ask. I wish all consoles could be as reliable as the Game Boy Advance.
I’m a paranoid fuck so I don’t like the thought of something scanning my living room and sending the information to microsoft, which it probably will since Kinect does so.
Also, stop calling it Xbox 720, use Xbox Durango.
Anyone read 1984? It has some extremely interesting similarities in parts to todays technology, KINECT being one of them.
I used to tell my friends I’d disconnect my KINECT when not using it. They laughed at me and called me a paranoid loser. Someone older comes along and tells them the same thing, now they haven’t had it connected in months.
Anyway, if the new Xbox has a KINECT built in you can’t turn off, subscription fees similar to gold I won’t be buying one. I’ll be waiting for the steam box.
k3nny: I’ve been playing games on the 360 for many months now. Besides, this isn’t about the 360. This is about the IllumiRoom concept.
As of right now, it’s a proof-of-concept, not anything actually created. There’s no evidence that it would scan your living room and send that information to Microsoft; just that it would alter the video being projected around the television to provide a more expanded field of vision for gaming.
Even so, who’s to say it wouldn’t scan the inside of your living room to target ads based on things you own?
Plus, how would the visual elements themselves even wrap around objects, anyway? The image would get distorted to hell and back. The image in the video proper seems to use elements in the room as “shadows” in the image. Interesting effect but a lot of the effects seem more suited to a nightclub for the sound equalizer than anything.
that’s the whole point of scanning the room for objects and then projecting an image that looks perfect from the viewer’s angle
I like this idea, but that’s because I totally predicted Microsoft trying to copy Nvidia Surround/AMD Eyefinity for consoles without actually using triple screens.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually comes with the projector, pico projectors are insanely cheap and don’t even need to be focused to get a sharp image.
Because inventing fully-functional object recognition software for ad revenue is the stuff of conspiracy theories?
Their next console better be one powerful motherfucker. Looks like it’ll be rendering 2-3x as much for the projector thingy alone.
I think it would be really cool. The video shows it nicely… in concept.
I also think it has the potential to be a nice source of headaches and migraines, depending on the person. Expanded FoV tends to do that.
Of course it would be impossible to know until you try. I don’t think it would be a problem for most.
Play Dead Space with it ghehe.
i heard the xbox 720 is going to be a toilet
Then all you need is a fridge with a TV built in, and you never have to get up again!
That’d pan out well for humanity!
I don’t like to shit within 20 feet of where I keep my Valve stuff.
It’s a fridge that shoots food and cheap beer into your face when you say “XBOX: I’M HUNGRY”
Seems like it could be pretty cool. I have issues with looking at lit displays in dark rooms, so I’ll have to judge it with my own eyes.
People are gonna call me an idiot for this again but I got so used to the ultra-wide field of view that I get headaches from playing in single screen mode.
I spent many thousands of dollars on my gaming rig setup just so that playing on sensible rigs would make me puke.
I only spent 130$ (on my HD6870) all 3 monitors were kindly donated to me over the span of the past 3 years.
I’m still running Socket 775 with a Core 2 Duo from late 2005 and the same DDR2 RAM that I got from a black guy off the street for a bag of weed.
I’m sorry for going offtopic here, but this was really a cheap setup and it does run Metro 2033, NFS the Run, Sleeping Dogs and Crysis 2 on highest settings possible averaging over 40fps in most cases.
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