Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck

Posted by on May 4th, 2013

There’s really not much to talk about here with a bunch of words. They’ll just get in the way of you pressing play and smiling like a little kid as your brain sort of automatically speculates on the possibilities of this in peoples’ homes.

We’ve all dreamed of the Holodeck being a part of our secret lair at home. Microsoft’s new IllumiRoom is a lot like watching a baby take its first steps in the direction of Holodecks becoming a standard part of any man-cave.

Sure we’ve seen mapped projections before like at Walt Disney World’s Magic, Memories and You show at the Magic Kingdom…but nothing on a consumer level and nothing with this kind of customization. Using a Kinect, a couple of cameras and some software, this is something that, while in its newborn stage, could lead to some truly innovative projects and ideas…or just mean that we’re going to be leaving our mother’s basements way less than we already do.

[GizMag]

One Response to “Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck”

  1. Mark Triskaid Says:
    May 13th, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    Nice! My only fear is that it leads us one step closer to invasion by malign photovoltaic life forms (if Star Trek voyager is anything to go by). :p