Monday, October 6, 2014
Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game
Microsoft has unveiled a new augmented reality experience called "RoomAlive".
Using projectors and Kinect, RoomAlive allows for fully interactive
gaming experiences that take up an entire 3D space. From the article:
"RoomAlive builds on the familiar concepts of IllumiRoom, but pushes
things a lot further by extending an Xbox gaming environment to an
entire living room. It's a proof-of-concept demo, just like IllumiRoom,
and it combines Kinect and projectors to create an augmented reality
experience that is interactive inside a room. You can reach out and hit
objects from a game, or interact with games through any surfaces of a
room. RoomAlive tracks the position of a gamers head across all six
Kinect sensors, to render content appropriately."