IllumniRoom, Because Your TV is Too Small

Microsoft and Samsung showed off IllumniRoom, which is being worked on by Microsoft Research for the Xbox. Yup, some worthwhile gaming news from CES that isn’t related to the PC. What is IllumniRoom? Well it combines the Xbox, the Kinect, and a projector to fill the room with images, going beyond what your puny “big screen” TV can display. It uses the Kinect to scan the room, and then uses that data to project images beyond the screen in real time. It actually looks pretty cool, but is still in the prototype stage at this point. Hopefully we’ll see more of it at the console show, I mean E3.