Microsoft Holodeck Patent Reveals the Future of Games

• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-14 07:56
  http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-12826-Microsoft-Holodeck-Patent-Reveals-the-Future-of-Games.html
  

  
  Microsoft is working on technology that projects 3D game worlds onto the walls of a room.
  
  It is presumed that the tech will be used in conjunction with Microsoft’s next wave of Kinect hardware, which is rumoured to come in the form of 3D glasses called Fortaleza. The glasses will be able to tell exactly what direction in which you're looking, as well as giving the impression of 3D objects within the room.
  
  So basically, your entire room could be turned into an alien environment filled with characters, architecture, fauna and who knows what else, much of which is interactive. Microsoft are building a Holodeck.
  
  The news comes via a patent filed by MS themselves, which is accompanied by an image showing just how the tech would work. It shows someone playing an FPS, with the image on a TV screen spilling out onto the walls of the room. It also shows a second TV-mounted device alongside a Kinect unit.
  
  The patent reads, “Interactive media experiences, such as video games, are commonly delivered by a high quality, high resolution display. Such displays are typically the only source of visual content, so that the media experience is bounded by the bezel of the display.”
  
  “Even when focused on the display, the user may perceive architectural and decorative features of the room the display is in via the user’s peripheral vision. Such features are typically out of context with respect to the displayed image, muting the entertainment potential of the media experience.”
  
  “Further, because some entertainment experiences engage the user’s situational awareness (e.g., in experiences like the video game scenario described above), the ability to perceive motion and identify objects in the peripheral environment (i.e., in a region outside of the high resolution display) may intensify the entertainment experience.”
  

  [Image: http://www.xbox360achievements.org/images/news/holodeck.jpg]

  
  

  
  Star Treks gonna sue.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-09-14 13:38
  That's a fancy patent there. Probably better than all of Apple's and Samsung's/Google's thousands of stupid mini patents that target like one small tiny piece of a bigger piece of technology.
• Maenad wrote on 2012-09-14 13:53
  Just gonna throw this out there...
  Wii: "Motion controls are such a stupid gimmick"
  Kinect: "SO INNOVATIVE"
  
  This DOES look interesting though, we'll see how it turns out.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-09-14 13:58
  I happen to like the Wii motion controls, thank you very much. Was never into xbox and Kinnect sounds more like a copy of what Wii was already doing.
• Maenad wrote on 2012-09-14 14:04
  In all honesty, I've always said and thought Nintendo would be the ones to do something like this first. Inb4 next iteration of DS is full motion control and virtual reality.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-09-14 14:06
  Microsoft should just invent the NerveGear and be done with it -.-
• Second wrote on 2012-09-14 15:13
  Kind of reminds me of Hyundai's hyper matrix with a kinect
  
  [video=youtube;il_uF0jEAlE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il_uF0jEAlE[/video]
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-09-15 04:03
  Either going to be super expensive or suck. Then again, consoles do cost hundreds of dollars anyway, and for that price it might be able to afford it. Remember when the PS3 was $600?
  
  I just worry that when they get "creative" like this, they're going to end up making things that are of no interest to people who really enjoy games, and great interest to very casual gamers who basically just want to bring their friends over once a week and end up enjoying each others' company more than the thing itself. Not that there's anything wrong with that. There've just been so many gimmicks, one after the other, and they're fun for anyone to play with briefly but they're just not worth spending hundreds of dollars on.
  
  I know, I know.
  
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  But a lot of these gimmicks are such a shallow type of fun that they're only enjoyable in certain conditions or for brief periods of time. I think most people can at least agree with that. That's why I'm getting tired of 3D, motion controls, etc. It's just too cheesy and fake right now to be even remotely close to being "good enough".
• Maenad wrote on 2012-09-15 04:27
  Skyward Sword was the perfect motion control game. Not a single time did the motion controls feel tiring.
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-09-21 06:40

  Quote from Maenad;951688:

  Skyward Sword was the perfect motion control game. Not a single time did the motion controls feel tiring.

  
  
  We're talking about Wii Sports.
  Oh my God I couldn't lift my arm for 2 days.
• Oizen wrote on 2012-09-21 15:27

  Quote from Jerain;953915:

  We're talking about Wii Sports.
  Oh my God I couldn't lift my arm for 2 days.

  
  
  Your sister must have been annoyed with you.