Microsoft patent reveals whole-room immersion ambitions

A recent Microsoft patent has revealed its ambitions to bring the gaming environment out of the TV and onto the walls of your living room. Patently Apple, which analyses the patent applications of Apple and other technology competitors found the filing from August and has published a detailed overview of the document.

Microsoft apparently plans to use a future version of its Kinect sensor to accurately plot the position of a gamer within a game’s virtual environment and then to allow a games console to project that environment onto the walls of the room. The patent further speculates that both the main display and projected environment could be based on 3D technology to provide an even more immersive experience. Now, whilst this is simply a patent application, not a product plan, the possibilities are pretty exciting. As we’ve already seen its perfectly possible to couple gaming technologies with high resolution imaging systems for some impressive results. It would be perfectly possible to hook a Kinect sensor with a high performance graphics rig to drive a fully immersive cave-style environment. All we need now is solid projected images, and we’ve finally got the holodeck! Source: InAVate

Read More........→October 02, 2012

New technology can 'pull' a show on TV onto tablet

Do you hate missing out on your favourite TV show just because you had to rush out of the house? A new technology can now 'pull' the programme on your TV screen onto your tablet so you can watch it on the go! A scientist from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore has developed an innovative multi-screen mobile social television experience called the 'Social Cloud TV'. Wen Yonggang, assistant professor from the School of Computer Engineering has described his invention as the next frontier of television experience as you can now "bring the social experience of watching television in your living room wherever you go". The system allows you to watch TV programmes and online videos with your family and friends at the same time. The system leverages a cloud backend for media processing, such that the same video can be streamed into devices in the most suitable format. When viewing a TV show or perhaps a live soccer match, you can invite family and friends to join your session, from either your phone book or social networking contact lists. "You could watch a video with your class mates on the computer, and just before you leave school, 'pull' the show into your tablet and continue watching on the go," Wen said in a statement. "Upon reaching home, you could just turn on your television and 'throw' the video back to the TV, and continue watching the programme there," Wen added. "With the increase in online video and personal multimedia devices, we have lost out on the experience of watching TV shows together as a family and as a social activity with friends. So I hope that with my invention, people can now reconnect with each other socially using videos," Wen said.Source: Indian Express

Read More........→August 14, 2012

The TV of the future arrives early!! TV having Thickness of Just 4mm

OLed TV with Four Color pixel

This week, LG will unveil the first 55-inch OLED television - a technology that offers razor-thin screens, sharper colours and faster-moving screens than any previous television. Organic LED - OLED - is used widely in high-end smartphones such as Samsung's Galaxy S2, but up until now, manufacturing large screens using the technology has been too expensive. The set is just 4mm thick and weighs 7.5kg. It will launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The television updates 1,000 times faster than current LED sets. LG claims to have cracked a new manufacturing process that makes the set far cheaper to produce - although the company has still not said how much the TV will cost. The set has four colours of

Model Demonstrating Oled TV 

pixel, rather than the usual three, which makes for high-contrast, sharp images with realistic colours. ‘We have a product which not only delivers on all the advantages of OLED over LCD but at a significantly lower cost,’ said Havis Kwon,CEO of LG Electronics. ‘OLED is clearly the future of home TV entertainment.’ Earlier OLED sets - Sony and others have already unveiled smaller sets - tended to have colours that changed depending on what angle viewers looked at the set from.  The new set has an infinite contrast ratio, and the speed - 1,000 times faster than LED sets - ensures it can show extremely fast-moving scenes without motion blur.The Ultimate Update: The TV of the future arrives early!! TV having Thi.

Read More........→June 03, 2012