{"id":10028,"date":"2013-01-16T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/i_want_xbox_illumiroom_now.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:15","slug":"i-want-xbox-illumiroom-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/i-want-xbox-illumiroom-now.html","title":{"rendered":"I Want Xbox IllumiRoom Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft really differentiated itself with Kinect and now it&#8217;s touting IllumiRoomn as the next step in immersive gaming. The idea is images will be projected in your room beyond the display &#8211; allowing for the offline world to merge with the online. The company has showed similar demos before &#8211; at an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a> some years back the company showed a video on the keynote stage of a desk where a screen was projected and interacted with items on the surface like a coffee cup.<\/p>\n<p>The same technology was on display this past week at CES actually &#8211; just not from Redmond.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/re1EatGRV0w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is IllumiRoom a product we will see in the future or just a gimmick with a short shelf life? I am not sure. It seems really cool &#8211; but then again I remember a manufacturer came out with a TV which projected the color displayed on a TV screen to the surrounding wall and it didn&#8217;t gain much traction.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this tech looks leading-edge and I&#8217;d love to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft really differentiated itself with Kinect and now it&#8217;s touting IllumiRoomn as the next step in immersive gaming. The idea is images will be projected in your room beyond the display &#8211; allowing for the offline world to merge with the online. The company has showed similar demos before &#8211; at an ITEXPO some years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,172,196,188],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19131,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/19131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}