IllumiRoom - a project division Microsoft Research, allows kit Xbox Kinect to interact with a projector that takes video content from the TV to the wall of the room, creating an immersive viewing experience into a kind of virtual reality. Recently, the developers said that the technology IllumiRoom 2.0 was renamed RoomAlive and made a huge leap in development in comparison with last year's results.
The system is now using the projector transmits images across the room in order to enable you to interact with objects in space. Instead of a single Kinect and projector RoomAlive uses bunch of multiple projectors, Kinect and a computer that acts as a control. In Microsoft says that this system has an automatic calibration: it determines the location of objects and calculates all the 3D-geometry of the room for a few minutes.
RoomAlive can track multiple players and game controllers (acting as a weapon), allowing you to strike or to blow the virtual objects.The system is also capable of projecting textures and cyber-creatures on your walls and furniture, making a cozy room in the lair of bloodthirsty monsters or abandoned factory. On one of the featured designers rollers room with a set of established RoomAlive transformed into a scene of the film "Her", where players had to literally dodge churned out characters. Also demonstrated the operation of the system on the example of a video game where the player needed to avoid traps and solve physical puzzles. If the user does not cope with the task, RoomAlive literally covered his body image of the bloody mayhem.
Of course, it looks impressive, but talking about the commercial potential of the technology is still too early Illumiroom, because the system is still a long way from the time-to-market. And if it comes to that, not many people are able to master the purchase of components for tying all required modules Kinect and projectors. Nevertheless, as in the case of Oculus, not difficult to understand that the creation of such technologies gives a great potential in various applications. And in contrast to the same Rift, it may one day turn the computer games in real interactive entertainment is really capable to force users to get up from your favorite couch.