Microsoft Illumiroom

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The IllumiRoom would take the physical form of a small, wide-angle projection box that would sit on your coffee table, facing the TV. From there, it would feed off all kinds of information — from tapping right into a game’s source code, to reading raw controller input — to apply all manner of effects.

On the developer side, IllumiRoom would offer a wide variety of options from blowing out the whole screen to the walls, letting just explosions and gunshots bleed onto the nearby walls, having objects seem to fall off the screen and onto the floor, adding abstract reality-warping effects, or any combination of the above.

Thoughts?

 
Looks good, but I don't really see any gameplay benefits of having it on. Looks like it would only work well under certain conditions.
 
Kinda like ambilight on steroids! Looks like it could be really good depending on your setup, but the projector would need to somehow be wireless....
 
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