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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Star Trek Holodecks on the way -- The 'living video' you step inside: Sony hints at the future of entertainment with 'cinema' that erupts out of the sofa and the walls

Sony's new viral videos use technology normally reserved for hi-tech flight simulators used to train fighter pilots to create 'living worlds', like a television on every wall of a room.

It hints at a truly astonishing future of entertainment - and the videos boast they were achieved without any post-production or digital alteration, just using projectors aimed at walls, and Sony's Eyetoy camera for PS3. That, and a few actors and the odd prop.

The one problem, of course, is that Sony's Eyetoy controller is distinctly limited next to Microsoft's Kinect - so it would all definitely work better on Xbox 360.

Projectors targeted at the walls, sofa and floor make 'real' objects seem to appear around the room. The technology is extremely impressive - but you'd need a huge amount of very expensive hardware to enjoy it yourself

Projectors targeted at the walls, sofa and floor make 'real' objects seem to appear around the room. The technology is extremely impressive - but you'd need a huge amount of very expensive hardware to enjoy it yourself

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070296/The-living-video-step-inside-Sony-hints-future-entertainment-world-projected-walls.html

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