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FrancisNobleman on 11 September 2012
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Adinnieken said:

According to the patent, the projector, working in conjunction with Kinect, is supposed to adjust the display of images based on depth.  So if an object existed along the wall, the projector would use the data from Kinect to determine how to display it. 

Read the fricken patent before you sit and tell me how it works!

Claim 3 and 4 deal specifically with this exact subject matter:

"3.  The system of claim 1, further comprising instructions to: receive one or more of depth information and color information for the display environment from the depth camera; and display the peripheral image on the environmental surface of the display environment so that the peripheral image appears as a distortion-corrected extension of the primary image."

"4.   The system of claim 3, further comprising instructions to compensate for topography of the environmental surface described by the depth information so that the peripheral image appears as a geometrically distortion-corrected extension of the primary image."

Just take a read through the majority of the responses here. Projecting stuff onto irregular messy surfaces is a big no no, I don't know if you like to watch content like that but 99% of people don't.

 

That device could even guess lottery numbers, it is still projecting stuff onto non-regular flat surfaces on its core functionality.

 

Just because a company is considering this it doesn't mean it is feasible. Look at the Nintendo's Virtual Boy or the Sega Activator (kinect like from 1994).

Those were huge messes due to being unpractical. Just like this unless you have flat surfaces 360º around you. And even having it, you can still be looking at a poor performance because you need a competent device to deliver that, if Microsoft eventually cheaps out at making this you could e looking at a kinect like type of responsiveness, which we all know how that went down the road.

 

Projecting will always imply doing so on flat surfaces. Unless your looking at a music event with special effects were the image can be distorted all over the place because no one will give a shit about it.