Ideally we’d all love to be playing our games on the big screen as it can be a bit more immersive and feels really epic. But wouldn’t it be more awesome if our entire room was the “screen” itself? Well that’s what Microsoft is trying to do with its RoomAlive concept, thanks to the Microsoft Research division.
This is sort of the successor to the Illumiroom concept where instead of merely extending your field of view, it now makes your room interactive as well, so that gamers will have to interact with the environment that it touches upon, like the furniture, the walls, and so on. In the video above, Microsoft Research shows off some possible types of games that could be made for the RoomAlive concept.
For example we have a whack-a-mole type of game in which a gun accessory is used, and there is also an interactive danger room concept where you will have traps coming out of the walls and so on. Obviously this is still very much a proof-of-concept technology at the moment as we can only imagine the technology used is not exactly standardized.
It is probably also going to be very expensive if it were to be sold as it is, but it does represent a new level of video games that could possibly hint at what to expect in the future, but what do you guys think? Could you imagine yourself playing games in that state in the future?
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