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Re: Microsoft Research’s IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

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Post by hessenwolf » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

dhughes wrote: post #3

ChuckMcM wrote: post #2

Now replace your entire wall with an OLED 8K display. One of the things I've been playing around with have been the Phillip's "Hue" lights (see the Apple store) which you can control via the Zigbee light protocol. Taking the colors from the screen and doing accent lighting of similar shades. Its kind of amazing how that makes your screen seem bigger.

>Now replace your entire wall with an OLED 8K display. That would be the only thing from sci-fi movies that could come true. I guess silver jumpsuits are possible too but isn't that an unspoken rule that such a thing is a big no?

There are clubs for that, and my smartphone is not far beyond Picard's communicator...

Re: Microsoft Research’s IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

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Post by ChuckMcM » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

aethr wrote: post #12

culturestate wrote: post #9

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Do you mean accent lighting around the room, or behind the TV in the vein of Philips's Ambilight[1]? 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight

Adafruit makes a DIY version of something very similar. http://www.adafruit.com/products/461

It was looking at this project that got me started. Its a lot of fun.

Re: Microsoft Research’s IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

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Post by waterlesscloud » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

vilya wrote: post #13

waterlesscloud wrote: post #8

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Add in a Kinect. Now have fun.

IllumiRoom already uses a Kinect. That's how it captures the geometry of the room.

So why on earth didn't the video show the players using it? Huge missed opportunity there.

Re: Microsoft Research’s IllumiRoom projects images into your living room

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Post by dhughes » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 3:22 AM UTC

hessenwolf wrote: post #21

dhughes wrote: post #3

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>Now replace your entire wall with an OLED 8K display. That would be the only thing from sci-fi movies that could come true. I guess silver jumpsuits are possible too but isn't that an unspoken rule that such a thing is a big no?

There are clubs for that, and my smartphone is not far beyond Picard's communicator...

In form maybe but not function, then again unless we knew how the communicator worked in the series it's hard to say. Although I can barley get two bars inside at work let alone call someone in orbit.