Microsoft files for patent for Complete Immersion Gaming

What about if the player starts casting shadows if he gets in the way of one of the projectors? That would be pretty damn annoying :P...
But I guess it's a cool fantasy, just impossible I think.

I honestly don't see this happening really until OLED gets so cheap it can be put all over walls like a wall paper lol.

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Originally Posted by Robert

Have you ever actually looked into that tech? I was at an AutoCAD seminar focused on architecture and they have the tech you are referring to, to get exact room dimensions quickly (not seconds!). If you think they could put that in a console you are highly mistaken. The cost of them are in the thousands. Line ones alone, without the motor to get the 3D, are in the about £200.

Unless you are thinking someone from MS would come out to do the scan, which could in theory work, but even then a good enough projector to work on non white walls would still set you back the best part of a grand, let alone needing what 5 for each wall and the ceiling. It just wouldn't be practical.

The tech might technically exist, but the cost would be extreme. And it still wouldn't look good without white walls, with the same distance between each side, and nothing else in the room to cast shadows etc.


Nah, this just won't happen. Imo the net step will be headsets if they really wanted to go down the path of augmented reality.

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People said the same thing about Home PC's and DVD's 20 years ago....Too expensive...would take up an entire room...now you can buy a DVD player for $20 at Walmart...

Tech moves too fast for money limitations to be imposed...

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Originally Posted by Monolith

People said the same thing about Home PC's and DVD's 20 years ago. Too expensive, would take up an entire room. Now you can buy a DVD player for $20 at Walmart!

Tech moves too fast for money limitations to be imposed.

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And yet the cost of consoles seems to keep going up, same with games. Granted some of that could be to do with inflation, but mostly it's because they used more tech. So it's the reverse to what you are saying.

Projectors are a niche product. How many people do you know who use one? The reason prices of home PCs and disk players go cheap is by mass demand. Plus they just don't work for most people. I used one at work, it sucked. Any light in your room? The picture is crap for any cheap projector (which they will use, for sure) and the price of luminance isn't really going down.

I'm sorry I just disagree with this being practical. Unless, as Justei says, we have OLED wallpaper&furniture it won't happen. Even when we have that technology the cost of running it probably removes it from the mass market too, if not the cost of buying it. Electricity costs are going up after all, turning your room into a huge screen is just a waste of money for what it adds.

Frankly headsets (and eye implants/contact lenses) are the way to go. Google Glasses already see that.

(Also fixed your post, seriously the ... is so childish. If it's a pause, use a full stop, if its a short pause, a comma. I used to do it when I was younger, but really it does make you look silly, and it's simply unnecessary. You are telling people to pause for 3 full stops worth of time making your posts annoying to read!)

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Originally Posted by shadow destroy

Microsoft is getting more retarded every day...

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Not really, Depending on how they create the experince determines if it can be patented. If it is different from sonys it is still possible.

All joking aside it could be worse you could be a design company that has never created any thing in your life but pretty cases and then attempt to sue every company for stealing your so called work and designs that exsisted before you created your pretty crap.

Ow wait sorry I forgot we have apple to do that.

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Not really, Depending on how they create the experince determines if it can be patented. If it is different from sonys it is still possible.

All joking aside it could be worse you could be a design company that has never created any thing in your life but pretty cases and then attempt to sue every company for stealing your so called work and designs that exsisted before you created your pretty crap.

Ow wait sorry I forgot we have apple to do that.

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Nobody is an apple hater , but they really do sue for everything , even for stuff they never invented , yet they "pattented it" , it been prooved several times that most parts of iPhone or iPod were in the market way before Apple started making them , they just perfected the technology for themselves to earn money. Lots of money.

Little off topic but Hey...I'll bite...

You act as if thats not the American way...our goal is to try and find some way to become rich without actually doing anything....frivilous lawsuits are a mainstay of the American court systems...

Look..Google is suing Apple over patents...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworst...le-sues-apple/

Hell..Google is even suing itself!

http://betabeat.com/2011/10/google-s...tual-ventures/

Do a Google search of ANY large company...add the word "sue" after it's name and you'll see it happens all the time...but no one cares...but WHOA..Apple does it and they are branded greedy.

Here..I'll even make it easy for you...

Let me Google Microsoft and sue for you

Let me Google Motorola and sue for you

Let me Google Exxon and sue for you

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Little off topic but Hey...I'll bite...

You act as if thats not the American way...our goal is to try and find some way to become rich without actually doing anything....frivilous lawsuits are a mainstay of the American court systems...

Look..Google is suing Apple over patents...


And Now Google Sues Apple - Forbes

Hell..Google is even suing itself!

Google Sues Itself With A Little Help From Intellectual Ventures | Betabeat

Do a Google search of ANY large company...add the word "sue" after it's name and you'll see it happens all the time...but no one cares...but WHOA..Apple does it and they are branded greedy.

Here..I'll even make it easy for you...

Let me Google Microsoft and sue for you

Let me Google Motorola and sue for you

Let me Google Exxon and sue for you

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Nothing to say anymore, this thread becomes sooner or later a debate.

Was just replying to your opinions :)

I always had this idea that it would be cool if there was like a gaming cube like thing. Like; you have this cube like a nother room but smaller and you step inside and put on the goggles and gloves and the room turns into the console (i had this idea for pokemon) so you would do the actions that you would see the people in pokemon do (e.g. throw a pokeball) and it was like a virtual reality cube. Something that my friends and i always bring up when we are stoned

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I always had this idea that it would be cool if there was like a gaming cube like thing. Like; you have this cube like a nother room but smaller and you step inside and put on the goggles and gloves and the room turns into the console (i had this idea for pokemon) so you would do the actions that you would see the people in pokemon do (e.g. throw a pokeball) and it was like a virtual reality cube. Something that my friends and i always bring up when we are stoned

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Pretty sure they had those in arcades like 10+ years ago.

VR isn't hard to make these days, it just costs a fair bit and takes a lot of space.