The Next Xbox Could Transform Your Living Room Into One Massive 3D Display

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Adinnieken said:

thehusbo said:
As cool as it looks, technology like this is still years off. It would be far too expensive for your average person anyway.

Yes, because Microsoft was incapable of taking technology that was still years off, and far too expensive for the average person and selling it for $150 with Kinect.

The basic technology involved here is a projector capable of displaying a 360° image.  Hardly a lot of sophisticated technology.

Well I think it would depend on how much tech and research currently exists for something like this or if MS are doing most of it internally. For Kinect for example MS had to licence camera technology from an Israli company, purchase a 3D video camera company and a semiconductor company to produce the 3D sensors to make Kinect a reality.

These companies had done research and development surrounding the Kinect hardware tech already, so it was simply a case of MS reaching out and making some aquisitions and hammering out deals to secure the hardware.

As for the software, Rare created that. So this time around Rare may be working on the new tech involved in this and perhaps the other aquisitions MS made have shifted development to this as well.

Either way, I would still imagine even the software required for something like this might be a few years off at least.

Edit: I made a few mistakes in my first post.