{"id":49204,"date":"2013-01-10T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T08:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=49204"},"modified":"2013-01-10T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T08:32:05","slug":"microsoft-illumiroom-adds-wall-projection-to-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/49204-microsoft-illumiroom-adds-wall-projection-to-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft IllumiRoom projects game visuals onto walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Samsung\u2019s CES 2013 keynote, Microsoft has revealed that the company is working on a new display-based technology that incorporates projecting images throughout a room.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed IllumiRoom, the new technology uses Kinect as a projector to display an extended image of the game screen on the environment around the TV.<\/p>\n<p>The system can \u201cchange the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences\u201d, according to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur\u00a0system uses the appearance and the geometry of the room (captured by Kinect) to adapt the projected visuals in real-time without any need to custom pre-process the graphics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A proof-of-concept demonstration video shows the game environment, fire and other particle effects being projected on the wall of a living room.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/re1EatGRV0w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Xbox news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/48024-xbox-720-holiday-2013-release-date-planned.html\">Xbox 720: Holiday 2013 release date planned<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47015-xbox-surface-tablet-in-the-works.html\">Xbox Surface tablet in the works?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47568-xbox-720-rumours-heat-up.html\">Xbox 720 rumours heat up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45717-microsoft-issues-rules-for-game-content-usage.html\">Microsoft issues rules for game content usage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s IllumiRoom pushes gaming beyond your TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7713,21,8391,93,91,8392],"class_list":["post-49204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ces-2013","tag-headline","tag-illumiroom","tag-kinect","tag-microsoft","tag-video-projection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49206,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49204\/revisions\/49206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}