Microsoft patents '3D-projected games'

[b00dles]

Saw this on the BBC technology feed and haven't otherwise seen a thread about it or mentioned it anywhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19568451

It looks a bit like a crazy extension to that setup Phillips had with light from the scenes on TV being projected around the screen (which I never saw in the flesh but always thought it didn't really look right).

This is the pic with the patent;

Will apparently include some sort of scanner to work out the size of the room and a head tracker to ensure the perspective was correct.

Looks like a weird Kinect 2 type thing and although the whole 'standing up to play games' thing is a bit tiring (wifi) it's a step toward the Holodeck so I'm quite intrigued.

[NecroMorrius]

[b00dles]

Imagine being INSIDE Nova Prospekt!!11!1

Well I thought it was something worth posting in here, since Sarge has vanished, we don't seem to be getting that many new threads in here about upcoming stuff, even if it is a total pipe dream and probably end up being shit.

[rgraves]

Is it 1080p? Does it show 9,989,908,675,789769 terra-megga-hyper pixels? It'll be shit if it does'nt

I actually think there is some potential there - would much rather go down this kind of route than wear a headset.

[Not Thread Owner]

That looks more shit than everything ever.

[Harsin]

Who has a room like that, honestly?

[b00dles]

Well apparently (although I've no idea how it could work and not be bucketloads) it will scan your room so if they manage that bit, you won't have to piss about with the required space for a current Kinect as well as (somehow) counting for windows, other lights, sofas, weird coloured walls, pictures etc. The scan in itself would be a must have for the Kinect as it's crap that it demands such a large empty space at the moment.

I imagine any first version of it would end up looking like the background of the fight arena's in FFVII, real blocky generic background for the area you're in but if it's all in your periphery, it might just, sort of, maybe, probably not, work.

I prefer it as an idea to the Sony headset that's also on that BBC news article, there's something about the whole headset thing that's just too 'anti-social gamer hiding in the dark about a headset but then at the same time, if you're playing a game in the living room and someone is there with you, you will have a continual travel buddy sitting in the environment you're in so it's arguably not much better...

[Bojangle]

Looks shit. Until Nintendo do it, then it's amazing. Just imagine, your living room actually being NINTENDO LAND.

[jiroczech]

We're already there man! NASA scientist think's our universe could be a simulation.

[b00dles]

If by some strange miracle it was something that the Kinect 2 (or 4 or whatever, by the time we might get it) could do for non-flailing about games that didn't require you to stand up then I'd be more interested, has anyone ever tried that Phillips setup? They even had fans and nonsense like that to blow different temperature air in your face at different strengths depending on the scene of a film...

If it could just project a somehow linked background (something like a golf or racing game could potentially work quite well), it would also mean that the Kinect would get a lot more use than it currently does and would always be there... scanning you... watching you...

[88h88]

Oh man, a completely empty room with white walls... WHAT ABOUT MY CONTRAST RATIO YOU FUCKING CUNTS?!

[Sprite Machine]

Why does Microsoft think everybody has MASSIVE EMPTY living rooms?!

[mushashi]

Ah yes, our reality is in fact the holodeck, but the twist being, we're the AI to allow our future super-duper computing descendants to 'time travel'.

[scottcr]

that simply wouldn't work in any normal living room. Ever.

OH LOOK OVER THERE, projected onto part of the couch and then part of the book shelf behind it

[Mr. Gerbik]

This only proves that Microsoft still has a very weird idea of what the average living room looks like. See also: Kinect. Where can I pre-order a PS4?

[b00dles]

From my understanding of it though, it won't matter if it's part projected all over the shop as it would be background, you wouldn't have to actually try and make something out that's skewed all over your furniture...

If you were playing a racing game and your walls where showing a lower res version of your surroundings rushing by you, wouldn't that be quite good? To be able to maybe see the car come past, even if half of it was projected on a chair?

No idea what it would do with a mirror though.

Either way, it's probably miles away anyway, patent doesn't mean it's going to happen in any way, we never got that vitality sensor from Nintendo did we?

[ravon]

From what i have pieced together from various sources , it might be using some glasses that project the augmented reality onto your Living room,

[scottcr]

I can see it as being pretty cool for adding in some kind of ambient stuff... but if it becomes required to play the game, it'll not work

[Harsin]

This only proves that Microsoft still has a very weird idea of what the average living room looks like. See also: Kinect. Where can I pre-order a PS4?

In marketing land you're either a white middle-class couple with a gigantic living room, decorated in white, consisting of a couch at one end and massive TV at the other, who congregate every afternoon to play local multiplayer games with their kids and the grandparents. Or you're a hip teenager who lives in a massive loft apartment with hardwood floors and you and your attractive multi-ethnic friends like nothing better than a game of Wii Sports/Kinect Sports/Whatever the fuck the Move one was called.

[Dimahoo]

This is amazing. But fucking ludicrous. MS are seriosuly batshit if you need that much space. And it'll never sell in Japan.

They have houses smaller then the room in the diagram.

[Retroid]

[b00dles]

But Gears 7 will look awesome projected on your duvet and the cat though.

[Retroid]

My cat has epilepsy.

[b00dles]

My cat has epilepsy.

So you'll have 3D projected immersion and a dancing cat!

(sorry, bit cold but couldn't resist)

[Retroid]

Haha, my cat doesn't really have epilepsy, rarely let it in tbh - first thing it tries to do is balance on top of the monitor. Anywho I can't see this being too popular with how inconvenient it looks. Perhaps in 30 years the tech will be cheap enough and good enough to get people's attention but not now.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Looks like an interesting idea, but I can't really see this working in my game room as it has a tilted wall on one side because it's under the roof, and is crammed full with other shite on all other sides. I got a corner with a 46" TV and some consoles underneath, and I got another 45" screen on the other wall connected to my games PC and that'll be as good as it gets for a while.

[Smitty]

valve are like a beautiful flower

[Gique]

with kinect, we made you re-arrange your furniture!

With project, we`ll make you repaint your walls!