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Microsofts RoomAlive transforms any room into a giant Xbox game
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Lord of Castamere
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Imagine Halo Wars 2 with the entire battle map hologramed on your floor.
Prophet Steve
Member
I love Microsoft Research so much.
Please don't make me do this.
TIMtationX
Member
Neat, but way too much equipment to be practical.
Caayn
Member
Anyone know any stores that have white paint on sale?
Auto-Reply
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It's a cool and totally non-practical concept for end-consumers.
OminoMichelin
Member
It's like it's the '90ies again.
How does it turn it into an xbox game when ti is clearly driven by a PC? Not to mention the lack of practicality of needing 5+ projectors and kinects.
Might be suitable for a dediepcated setup in eg an arcade, but then you wouldn't need any of the correction for furniture which is kind of the point of the tech demo.
Might be suitable for a dediepcated setup in eg an arcade, but then you wouldn't need any of the correction for furniture which is kind of the point of the tech demo.
Cheat Code
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Nice to see they already found their next innovation to cancel after they stopped bothering with Illumiroom.
Prophet Steve
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For the people that mention it.
They are well aware that this isn't suitable for consumers in this form.
Illumiroom wasn't meant to release as a product. They wouldn't have made this if they hadn't had Illumiroom as a stepping stone. This is Microsoft Research, they try to find the boundaries of what they can do and then see what they can do with the results.
They are well aware that this isn't suitable for consumers in this form.
Illumiroom wasn't meant to release as a product. They wouldn't have made this if they hadn't had Illumiroom as a stepping stone. This is Microsoft Research, they try to find the boundaries of what they can do and then see what they can do with the results.
EmptySpace
Banned
this looks stupid and impractical.
so this is what fortaleza is going to be like? vr > ar.
so this is what fortaleza is going to be like? vr > ar.
Caayn
Member
Jup, give it a few years and it might grow into an awesome product that is actually ready for consumers. Innovation tends to come from crazy ideas.
Almost every proof of concept is not suitable for consumers, strange that some people in this thread seem to forget that.
Hence why I said "it might"
Don't worry, it'll likely be worse once it gets stripped down for consumer use in the same vein of Natal -> Kinect.
Ayato Kanzaki
Member
Exactly.
I could see this being used in some arcade center, but how many of us would be willng to buy 7 projectors + 7 kinects and put them on their ceiling? The thing would also need to recalibrate each time you move a chair.
I prefer a pair of VR googles. More practical, far cheaper, and I wouldn't get blinded by intense light each time I lift my eyes upward.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Kinect 2.0 should have been some sort of orb shaped camera with projection capabilities so it could do this.
Sephiroth_VII
Member
Except that a holodeck is really much more limited than even the OR DK1. Sure, it looks cool, but what does it have over a VR headset to justify the additional cost? I'd argue that a headset is both more immersive, simpler and cheaper.
Ehhh its not anything just a POC. And your suggestion is horrible, even of its not viable they should continue to investigate ideas no matter how wacky.
Honestly, it doesn't look bad but it isn't "immersive" because it's just projectors hitting things in the way of it's projection and making you do a little game in hitting those things.
I'd rather have "Jarvis" from the Iron Man movies where a computer projection that you can put your hand through that isn't blocked by light/etc. happens. Probably won't ever be possible in my life time, but would be wicked to have.
I'd rather have "Jarvis" from the Iron Man movies where a computer projection that you can put your hand through that isn't blocked by light/etc. happens. Probably won't ever be possible in my life time, but would be wicked to have.
It is a prototype, not meant to be released. It doesn't have to be practical.
It's a pragmatic suggestion is all, VR is affordable and has potential for great proliferation. It's also a platform whose surface hasn't even been scratched yet. Theres going to be plenty of wacky creations once the dev community grows and competition begins.
I'm all for wacky ideas... but ideas that'd need £4000+ worth of hardware and highly specific living conditions to set up? Dead on arrival.
This seems like some failed PhD project.
I'll stop now.
alexandros
Banned
Cool as hell but it seems like it has limited practical uses.
Prophet Steve
Member
Failed PhD project? It would be a great success. The proof of concept seems to work very well.
The goal of this research is not to create a commercially viable product and that is something everyone should be aware of.
RowdyReverb
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Wouldn't the gun, player, and environment tracking demonstrated still be beneficial for VR? The VR program could incorporate your real environment into the game world using a similar method to projecting onto it. For example, you could have a VR (AR?) version of "The Floor is Lava" that lets you actually stand on your furniture, which would look like floating lava rocks to you. The research is definitely worthwhile.
Leyasu
Banned
Luckily, I'm already there
Spectral Entity
Member
Looks awesome, can't wait to use this when I'm 80!
No more using a controller for my then old feeble hands - I can use my whole body to bumble around the room and go "bang bang!" with my finger to mow down baddies.
Then walk to a nearby tree and go afk while I take a nap.
No more using a controller for my then old feeble hands - I can use my whole body to bumble around the room and go "bang bang!" with my finger to mow down baddies.
Then walk to a nearby tree and go afk while I take a nap.
Prophet Steve
Member
Well, then you still have the trouble with objects in the room. Unless you want to plaster LEDs over those too, but you'd need to clean all the LEDs up again when you are done.
Damn it, why. Now I need this to be a thing.
a Master Ninja
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orichalcos
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I dislike the idea of being locked away from the world. Its bad enough games are a escape, we don't need people stuck in VR machines running away from reality and responsibilities, I have a huge problem with VR, but that's my IMO. I think its a really cool concept, but I can see the major issues in society as a whole if it becomes huge, especially with people, with no constrain, might be wrong. I prefer this tech from Microsoft though.