Neowin News Feed for: Illumiroom

A quick look back at Microsoft's IllumiRoom, its "immersive gaming" projector project

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:00:01 +0000

This concept, announced by Microsoft 10 years ago at CES 2013, was supposed to make gaming more immersive. In the end, its technology got superseded by bigger, better, and cheaper TV screens. Read more...

Ping-Pong gets a 21st century makeover in a London bar

Dreyer Smit — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 13:38:01 +0000

Thanks to Projection Mapping and 4K projectors, the traditional game of Ping-Pong has just received a giant shove into the 21st century with a completely fresh and interactive experience in London. Read more...

Microsoft's RoomAlive concept brings dead space to life

Chris Schroeder — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:02:01 +0000

A proof of concept project from Microsoft Research shows how the Kinect can be used along with projectors to make any room an interactive display experience. Read more...

Microsoft Research's IllumiRoom concept morphs into SurroundWeb

John Callaham — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:03:32 +0000

Microsoft Research has posted a new video that shows off SurroundWeb, a way to post web-based information on room walls and tables in a varient of their previous IllumiRoom concept. Read more...

Microsoft: IllumiRoom too expensive to include with Xbox One

John Callaham — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:29:11 +0000

Microsoft Xbox exec Albert Penello said that the IllumiRoom gaming projector demo from Microsoft Research won't be included with the Xbox One anytime soon, thanks mostly to its expensive price tag. Read more...

Microsoft files patents for Illumiroom

Andrew Stevenson — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 02:26:09 +0000

Microsoft has filed patent applications for the next possible step in interactive gaming. Illumiroom, as it's known, allows the gaming environment to be freed from the conventional barriers of the TV. Read more...

Microsoft's next-Xbox-bound IllumiRoom project expands gaming outside your TV

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:41:52 +0000

Microsoft has released some more information on their prototype IllumiRoom technology, which can project a game's world onto the area around your TY, and it could be coming to the next Xbox Read more...

Microsoft Research unveils IllumiRoom; A gamer's dream come true

John Callaham — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:51:42 +0000

Microsoft Research has revealed a new project called IllumiRoom as part of Samsung's CES 2013 press conference that could see future Xbox games projected outside a TV screen in a living room. Read more...