Xbox 720 tech could turn rooms into 3D environments
A breakthrough device, known in the patent as an "environmental display", will project 360-degree game worlds across all four walls of a room using advanced projection technology.
Crucially, the device will also boast a 3D depth camera, which it appears can calculate the player's position by emitting infrared light patterns and registering where the player is blocking the signal. This is a similar technique used for Kinect.
But the patent suggests further immersion with the use of Kinect's 3D camera, which can separately calculate the posture and various movements of the player.
It is stated in the patent that the tech will tie into the rumoured Kinect Glasses technology that leaked in June
Microsoft's shutter 3D glasses are suspected to work with Kinect, with the camera registering where the player is looking by sending signals to the glasses - much in the same way a Wii knows how its remote is positioned using signals sent to the sensor bar.
The possibilities for the combined technologies are unlike anything seen before in interactive entertainment. Players could feasibly fill their rooms with full 360-degree displays, interact with a game world not just on their TV but across the walls around them, and observe 3D holograms within the room through the Kinect Glasses.
The combined devices will, in theory, will provide the most sophisticated tracking data on where the player is standing and looking.
The new patent, unearthed by Patently Apple, quotes the Microsoft document as working on "an immersive display environment is provided to a human user by projecting a peripheral image onto environmental surfaces around the user. The peripheral images serve as an extension to a primary image displayed on a primary display."
Microsoft said that "the user may enjoy an immersive 3-D experience using suitable headgear, such as active shutter glasses configured to operate in synchronization with suitable alternate-frame image sequencing at primary display and environmental display."
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/367553/ground-breaking-xbox-720-tech-could-turn-rooms-into-3d-environments/
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TheyPosted:
Woobie That would be insane if you could pick up the item next to you and in game it would be shown.
That would be crazy. Probably won't happen though.
WoobiePosted:
That would be insane if you could pick up the item next to you and in game it would be shown.
TheyPosted:
Jagerteufel 3D glasses? I can't wear those without feeling light headed.
They might be a new kind of 3D glasses, not be the kind that you wear for 3D movies or 3D TVs.
TheyPosted:
VEVO They already showed this was possible using two Kinects so I don't see why they couldn't just embed that into one product. :D
They haven't showed 2 Kinects projecting images on your walls.
VEVOPosted:
They already showed this was possible using two Kinects so I don't see why they couldn't just embed that into one product. :D
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