| TheLastStarFighter said: It's a games machine, not a word processor. Use your imagination a little. I mentioned a keyboard as an example of the tech. For a Nintendo type experience, imagine a soccer ball projected on the floor that you can actually interact with. An AR experience in real life. A Pokemon sitting on your sofa. |
You're proposing projecting items on surfaces not meant for projection, during well lit conditions. (I doubt anyone wants to stumble around in the dark for AR experiences) You need a pretty powerful projector for that, as well as a sofisticated kinect like device build in to actively detect surfaces and people interacting with the projected images. (Next to the standard gyroscopes and positioning devices for orientation of the device)
It's possible, the celluon picopro laser projector has the advantage of always delivering a sharp image with laser projection and can cover an area of 36" in an indirect sunlit room (although that's measured on a projection screen) It's $349 but perhaps a lower res version (this one is 1920x720) could be made cheaper. I don't know what a miniaturized version of Kinect would cost, nor how much processing power you need to adjust the image to the surface in real time. Illumiroom did the scanning fase beforehand using standard Kinect, then used an expensive high powered projector to create the illusion in a dimly lit room with uneven surfaces.
Drawing in a picture on a phone screen is about 1000 times easier as what you're suggesting. An interactive version of illumiroom from a handheld device sounds a whole lot of steps ahead of what is possible atm.
But maybe there's more pieces to the puzzle we don't know about. A separate camera/pico projector combo you point at a table. Project and interact with board games on that table. Set it on top of the tv, filming/projecting down onto the coffee table. Playfield in front of you, details etc on the tv screen. Bring board games back to life. Perfect for trivial pursuit like games.
