Microsoft’s impressive IllumiRoom concept will probably never make it to the shelves of your local gaming store.
Albert Penello, head of product planning for Xbox One, spoke to AusGamers at Gamescom and they asked him about the prototype tech.
“I wouldn’t expect you’ll see that,” Penello said. “It’s very, very cool tech but it’s, like, for a consumer, it requires projectors and things. It’s really super-neat if you’re in the lab and you’ve got Microsoft money and you could totally set up this awesome lab, but… we looked at it, but for an average customer it’s, like, thousands of dollars [for the set up].”
Perhaps Microsoft will reconsider the project in a few years time when the cost of projectors has decreased.
Source: Ausgamers
FluBBa
Sooo, it’s software that sits between the console and a projector… I’ve said it before and I say it again; If I had a porjector setup in my living room, I’d use that for my gaming instead of the TV.
bluewolf
I play/watch everything on my projector. 720 and 1080, whatever the media calls for. It’s pretty good with Dolby 5.1.
Cost (had I not been given it for free)? £500. I am thinking it is not *that* expensive.
Starman
“super-neat” MS execs really use the worst attempts at “down with the kids speak”
ron_mcphatty
It sounds very American and ive got a feeling they do say things like ‘super neat’ now. His quote was also, like, fairly, like, hard to read.
bunimomike
…and then some! The guy sounded like a spazzed-out teenager surfer dude! What the hell language was that?
ron_mcphatty
American :)
DividSmythe
Quite obvious price would be to expensive unless your fairly rich/stupid
samiro05
Was this by any chance a liverpudlian talking? The use of ‘like’ makes me think this.
Bilbo_bobbins
to be honest I thought it was too distracting for me to want it.
KeRaSh
That how I feel about it. It’s a cool concept to show off, but I wouldn’t want it to be part of my gaming set up.
Gingerballs1
don’t see the point in this if you need a projector just move the tv out of the way and use the projector on the wall there is no need for both plus you can get a decent HD projector these days for a couple of hundred pounds not as expensive as this guy is making out so you could possibly do it your self who knows
yiddo
Microsoft doing what they usually do then? Getting people hyped and then going ‘nah, soz guys’. Shame :/
cam the man
Always thought it didn’t look right with a room full of furniture etc, may look better in a bare room with just a TV in front of you.