Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 6, 2014 @01:35AM from the from-the-comfort-of-your-own-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes 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."

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Don't want by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-06 02:26 · Score: 3, Funny

I chose videogames over sports so I could sit on my ass and eat doritos all day long. I don't want to exercise more than throwing my controller against the wall and picking it up when some 12 year old aimbot owns me in CoD while calling me a gay faggot. If I have to move to play Xbox then fuck it, I'm going back to TV.