New Tech: Xbox 720 IllumiRoom

For all of you 3ds Max artists out there working in either the gaming, visualization, or experiential industries this may be of interest. Microsoft has released a video on YouTube demonstrating some new tech they’ve been working on called IllumiRoom. IllumiRoom uses a Kinect to capture the room geometry around your tv and allows it to use a wide angle projector sitting on your coffee table to do projection mapping onto your room. The applications shown in the video are clearly gaming in nature but we think this tech should be able to be potentially applied to Arch Vis or Experiential Event applications perhaps using the ubiquitous Unity engine.

Examples show the ability to make your room appear toon shaded, black and white, or change its lighting, in addition to extending the 3d gaming engine environment into the actual room.