Microsoft's Ilumiroom

The Ilumiroom is a brand new concept being testing and development by Microsoft's research team. The general idea of this jaw-dropping gaming experience is to have both your Xbox Kinect camera and an above projector work together to create an entirely new experience. Some of the lines and graphics from your video game will be projected onto any environment you are playing in to create a wide-view 360 degree gaming experience. The combination of the virtual and physical worlds is designed to create the illusion of virtual reality in your own home. In terms of first person shooters, this technology expands your field of view, enhances your awareness, and enables an entirely new gaming experience. I for one will be first in line if this new concept is produced and becomes available to gamers for a reasonable price. Despite the fact that I may never leave my man cave again, this gaming innovation seems to have no negative features or qualities. This new technology, if perfected, could grow to become the precursor to a mainstream console allowing for an all inclusive virtual reality experience. The ability of the Ilumiroom to provide a field of view much larger than your TV could also benefit gamers in the sense that they wouldn't need such a large TV to see the same amount of content as everyone else. With this knowledge in mind, the savings in price between purchasing a 30" TV and a 50" TV could easily help contribute to the purchase of the Ilumiroom itself.