Our partners of Extra life They have presented us with one of the most attractive products presented in the CES Las Vegas by Microsoft Research called Illumiroom. This is a proposal to turn the home game room into a spectacular experience because the project uses the Kinect to scan the room in which we are going to play and project the video game all over the wall, not only to television.
As an experience it seems amazing although I still think that putting so much technology in the home cannot be good in the medium term because it will never be enough and it will be necessary to continue updating and, especially, because the disbursement may be excessive for the return obtained. It may be a reasonable option to play in a specialized place and where the action would be much more incredible and real. And you can probably have educational applications although that would require devoting developers' time to creating specific utilities. In any case I am convinced that we will soon see products marketed with that capacity.
As they have indicated in Extra Life, according to Microsoft, Everything seen in the demo video corresponds to the actual operation of the prototype and there is no image or any special effect on the video.
Although what worries me most is that the houses, soon, will have to be bought with a built-in games room to be able to respond to this need to play in such a real and immersive way. And with an adequate size and space for the scanner to pass the bomb, obtaining the measurements of the room and making the player be distructed.
I really like the advances in video games that have been made in recent years regarding the incorporation of the movement turning the player into a kind of command and without a doubt this scenario of making entertainment out of television has extraordinary potential. The key is in the software that is developed to take advantage of all these capabilities and translate them into a great experience for the players.
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