This concept, announced by Microsoft 10 years ago at CES 2013, was supposed to make gaming more immersive. In the end, its technology got superseded by bigger, better, and cheaper TV screens.
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Thanks to Projection Mapping and 4K projectors, the traditional game of Ping-Pong has just received a giant shove into the 21st century with a completely fresh and interactive experience in London.
A proof of concept project from Microsoft Research shows how the Kinect can be used along with projectors to make any room an interactive display experience.
Microsoft Research has posted a new video that shows off SurroundWeb, a way to post web-based information on room walls and tables in a varient of their previous IllumiRoom concept.
Microsoft Xbox exec Albert Penello said that the IllumiRoom gaming projector demo from Microsoft Research won't be included with the Xbox One anytime soon, thanks mostly to its expensive price tag.
Microsoft has filed patent applications for the next possible step in interactive gaming. Illumiroom, as it's known, allows the gaming environment to be freed from the conventional barriers of the TV.
Microsoft has released some more information on their prototype IllumiRoom technology, which can project a game's world onto the area around your TY, and it could be coming to the next Xbox
Microsoft Research has revealed a new project called IllumiRoom as part of Samsung's CES 2013 press conference that could see future Xbox games projected outside a TV screen in a living room.
