Wednesday, January 09, 2013

Microsoft and Samsung demo Illumiroom display, fills room with images (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/09/microsoft-and-samsung-demos-illumiroom-display-fills-room-with-images/

Microsoft and Samsung demos 'shapeshifting' display, fills room with images

Microsoft just demonstrated an interesting display technology called Illumiroom at the Samsung CES keynote that apparently fills up the room with images and lights beyond the confines of a television screen. We were shown a video of someone playing Xbox games and making it seem like it's snowing in the room, for example. It's unclear how the technology is being implemented, but we were promised it wasn't just video tricks and was indeed a video of a lab demo. We'll try to suss out the details for more.

Update: It's actually a Microsoft Research project called Illumiroom that uses a Kinect for a Windows camera combined with a projector. It apparently "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."

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Source: Microsoft Research