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ThatOneGuyNamedX Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#1: Sep 13th 2012 at 11:34:40 AM

Apparently they bought the patent for their new gimmick: Using projectors to create a "more immersive" system, turning your room into a display surface.

It ain't virtual reality, but it's somehting.

Can't believe microsoft is out-gimmicking nintendo. I'll remain skeptic about how something like this could happen. No release date, of course, seems to still be in development.

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#2: Sep 13th 2012 at 11:38:08 AM

On one hand, yay, holodecks.

On the other, ohgodno, Microsoft. tongue

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#3: Sep 13th 2012 at 11:38:29 AM

[up] Well, if they make it work its gonna be awesome.

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#4: Sep 13th 2012 at 11:41:56 AM

Now we know why Starfleet characters are always getting locked in with the safeties off.cool

edited 13th Sep '12 11:42:05 AM by TParadox

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ThatOneGuyNamedX Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#5: Sep 13th 2012 at 11:44:07 AM

This seems interesting.

Then again, it's probably gonna be a platform for Just Dance and an insane amount of cheap sports and "family" games.

Though it'd make the next Steel Batallion game FUCKING AMAZING. Unlike the Kinect one >_>

edited 13th Sep '12 11:44:21 AM by ThatOneGuyNamedX

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#6: Sep 14th 2012 at 3:59:55 AM

More than holodecks, this reminds me of parlor walls.

edited 14th Sep '12 4:00:07 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#7: Sep 14th 2012 at 5:31:38 AM

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#8: Sep 14th 2012 at 10:24:49 AM

Several years ago someone built a prototype where you could point at a wall and say "put a map of X on this wall" and the system would aim one of its projectors at that wall and display the image. This seems to be descended from that, which was originally intended for military operations.

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#9: Sep 17th 2012 at 1:51:34 AM

Don't worry y'all, the worst that could happen is this probably!

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#10: Sep 22nd 2012 at 8:29:37 AM

Stop looking at Microsoft's technical support implementation team's notebook several years early, or else you will get folks saying "burn the witch".tongue

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#11: Sep 22nd 2012 at 8:27:04 PM

Mua ha ha

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