What rubbish. That would have to be some powerful light to make a black wire look white.A bright enough projector should be able to overwhelm the dark wires with enough color and intensity of the new image projected
What rubbish. That would have to be some powerful light to make a black wire look white.A bright enough projector should be able to overwhelm the dark wires with enough color and intensity of the new image projected
Looks like they simply distorted and projected a capture of that part of the room. Not sure what's impossible about it. The area of the image where the wires are is simply moved downward and warped. The bottom of the entertainment center above the wires is even dropped below the shadow or dark trim from the actual furniture itself. They're going to show it off some more this year, so it's not like we won't get better looks at it and hands-on impressions of it sooner than later.
That still doesn't explain why the original wires aren't visible in the distorted frame.Ripple effect is doable. All you have to take photo/scan the room while light on, upload to the computer do the shit for you. Switch off, then the room look like light is on.
A bright enough projector should be able to overwhelm the dark wires with enough color and intensity of the new image projected, making it appear as though they're not there (momentarily), assuming you're looking straight on at it from the point of projection.
That still doesn't explain why the original wires aren't visible in the distorted frame.
What rubbish. That would have to be some powerful light to make a black wire look white.
It does if they were tidied up after scanning. I'm not sure if that's what happened as it looks a bit too good, but I think the static shot of the wobble in the trailer is filmed from right next to the projector, which should help.That still doesn't explain why the original wires aren't visible in the distorted frame.
I dunno about this video. It could be post-production for PR purpose. MS does love fake people montage.
I'm just saying it is technical possible to do like this effect with simple equipments.
god damn you got a raging hard on for MS PR.
I dunno about this video. It could be post-production for PR purpose. MS does love fake people montage.
I'm just saying it is technical possible to do like this effect with simple equipments.
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It's MS Research, that's a bit different than those early Natal concept videos I think.
Seem it have very similar cinemax with Xbox kinect video market. Fake massive living room with fake family or person. I won't be surprise if MS have own modelling agency.
Yeah pretty cool effect. It could have smaller snow, seem bit too large in this video.But guys, the projection snow!
But guys, that projection snow!
Postprocessed obviously, by their fake marketing people.
This doesn't seem nearly as immersive or innovative as the oculus rift, even if it's more expensive. Sometimes the most sensible solutions/evolutions are the best. I don't want bookshelves in my room to have a bunch of uneven and warped video displayed on it. They should sell this thing with a spherical room with nothing in it; that's the only way it could look good.
I don't want bookshelves in my room to have a bunch of uneven and warped video displayed on it. They should sell this thing with a spherical room with nothing in it; that's the only way it could look good.
But you are not really suppose to be looking at the walls when you are playing the game. What this effect does is causes you to feel more immersed in the game environment as you keep your attention on to the game itself.
Say for example I'm driving around at night in a racing game. I'm not going to be looking directly at the street lights as they pass me by. However, noticing (and/or feeling) lights passing me by as I race would be very immersive; regardless of how the street lights look on my wall due to picture and/or shelves.
Also, the tech will help things out so that it doesn't look too warped/uneven.
Weren't you mentioning "sensible solutions" just before ?
The main point of the tech displayed in the video is precisely that it doesn't need a spherical screen to look good : the projector "knows" the shape of the shelves and the position of the user's head, and "pre-warps" the image so that once it's projected, the deformation warps it back to how it's supposed to look.
Such a small thing, but I just imagined what this could do to add to the effect of thunderstorms in Red Dead Redemption. The lightning flashes and rain and turbulent clouds.
Such a small thing, but I just imagined what this could do to add to the effect of thunderstorms in Red Dead Redemption. The lightning flashes and rain and turbulent clouds.
So for this to work, Kinect would need to be behind you as well... Or is it expected that the projector device will simply have Kinect eyes as well?
It might be that you could place it behind you or by the tv depending on what game you're playing, i dunno.
Having the projector behind you would mean you'd see a big silhouette of you on your wall/tv.
Yes.Probably "behind you" means just like a normal projector. I can see it working with bhind/up or in front of you.
Apparently this dude never saw the Milo presentation. I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
Not much discussion about this technology as a step towards a new one. I see this as the first step towards something approaching room-based VR.
If there were some sort of future Kinect+Projector combo that you could stick on your ceiling that did this, I could see some value. As it stands, setting up a Kinect and a projector for something that seems less immersive than simply playing a game on a projector screen? Nah.
I like this much better than wearing stupid goggles.
That still doesn't explain why the original wires aren't visible in the distorted frame.
I guess as some add-on it would be interesting...
ok, I honestly can't find a good use for this, except if you have a pristine white room, in that case immersion might be awesome, but a room with normal furniture is just going to give you a lot of motion sickness, the room itself was too distracting in the video. Now getting your room into the game allows great possibilities, like playing a game of hide and seek for instance, but this doesn't seem like it wants you to get up from your couch.
We tried a couple times but it kept getting drowned out but I fully agree. Even what was shown will be optimized. I would love some kind of room based VR. We are years out but this, Oculus, and stuff no one has even announced yet, will all push us forward.
I call bullshit on this.
In the gif below you can see the wires under the cabinet actually shift position. There is no trace of them in their 'normal' position when everything distorts. You can't make it look like this without adding video effects. This happens with the cabinets too.
Sorta cool, but sorta dumb at the same time.
And people were saying the Wii U is gimmicky.
It's a much more interesting concept than this.