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ROOM!!
Looking quite cool actually. Check it out: Illumiroom.
Now, I don't know about you guys but if a grenade appeared to fall out of my tv screen I would PANIC!!!!
Great stuff. You just need to buy a projector, which begs the question, why not just use that instead?
But for some seriously freak out stuff, take a butchers yourself at the vid.
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Impressive to say the least!
Unfortunately I would need to move her out or move house to use a projector.
The design layout in the 1900's didnt forward plan for all of todays gizmos 
look forward to May 21
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I wasn't impressed one tiny little bit because its all about motion controlled gaming that does nothing for me,besides your going to have to turn one of your rooms in the house into some kind of Kinect Laboratory .
the technology is cool but how long before the whole thing becomes just another gimmick with little in the way of decent games.
I wait and see what they announce 21st May but this press conference does not have me excited,there going to have to come up with some mind blowing specifications and Games to leap what Sony has done.
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Yeah, something tells me MS, being an American company tend to think everyone has a huge living room to play in. Mind you, they did say they used a very wide angle projector thing. But still, not the most practical device ever to use.
Roll on May 21st. Unlike Timey I'm feeling positive. 
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my thoughts exactly
Microsoft you really have lost the plot.
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Can't disagree with the guy's thinking except for hearing the moan about how MS should not try to cater for home entertainment as well as gaming. I think that's up to MS and there's clearly an underlying strategy in them offering movie downloads and other stuff just cos it makes them lotsa dollahs. If the option's there then great but you don't have to use the additional services if you don't want to.
Back to Illumiroom. I gotta agree that it is really just a nice tech demo but then I like advancement in technology even if it doesn't have very practical applications. Quite a few product improvements come from allowing researchers plenty of scope to experiment in the same way the Kinnect staff provided many disparate industries the base technology to reprogram for unrelated and unenvisaged uses, like medical applications and for other entertainment uses beyond gaming.
I personally think the Illumiroom things is cool but like the article write and you, Timey old boy, don't see it as being a very practical option at all for the vast majority not until projector technology is hugely improved and costs are scaled down to peanuts asking prices. It needs to work (more than just barely) in a well lit room and not many projectors do that that don't cost ridiculous sums of money. There are potentially loads of great innovations that can make gaming a more immersive experience that either exist now (like good surround sound) or an army of peripherals. But yeah, most are very gimmicky even if their build design is to an acceptable standard. Surround sound, as we all know, requires many speakers (typically wired) and just look at how much aggro that creates.
Yeah, so. Good tech demo. Love the innovation. Keep it up Microsoft. Shame non of it will matter that much for a long while yet. But they're heading in the right direction in my view and I think both the Kinnect and Illumiroom thing are worlds apart from most of the rubbish Nintendo have released and particularly all the junk from yesteryear that I remember. But hey, if people enjoy it it's not junk to them. There's probably even a place for the Nintendo balance board thing if you skateboarding or something eh?
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I have to say it did look pretty immersive at times, although I don't agree about the daylight thing. I only ever game in low light, I find that alone feels far more immersive, but this would take that to the next level.
But I do expect cost to be prohibitive to the average gamer, although I would never buy into the xbox brand in the first place to be honest.
Great tech though. Next stop the holodeck. 
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Yeah, optimism! Holodecks all round! That's more like it and I bet Microsoft would be first to design one of those too, they're actually proving to be quite an innovative company these days.
Agree, I tend to only play games/watch movies in a darkened room. It is more immersive and you are more connected for sure, not to mention you have improved contrast levels. But I guess there are plenty of gamers who play in brightly lit conditions too.
Still, it's quite a cool idea even if it isn't practical.
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Well, check this out: 180 degree television for the home?
Seems Microsoft aren't the only ones 'thinking outside the box'. Hoho.
I think I prefer the Illumiroom. Much more impressive!
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I prefer sitting in the dentist chair having all my teeth extracted 
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I prefer sitting in the dentist chair having all my teeth extracted
Yeah, a bit like this guy eh? Is it safe, Timey? Is it safe? 
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Im not even going to click on the link because i will name that film in one,Marathon Man.
One of my favourites from the seventies..... Lawrence Olivea Roy Scheider,Dustin Hoffman .......Sadly Lawrence and Roy no longer with us.
Edited by time2die (Sat 04-May-13 00:53:17)
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10 outta 10 for the old timer. You know your stuff! Great film indeed, based on a real life person played so superbly by Lawrence.
Wouldn't mind watching Marathon Man again actually. Wonder if Lovefilm got it on instant? Doubt it. They don't tend to have nothing much that is good, which is why I'm gonna be cancelling me subscription.
edit - just as I thought, no they don't.
Edited by deleted (Sat 04-May-13 10:31:40)
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Come on lets have a classic action film quiz.
Give us some more lines from some films or quotes and lets see where we go from here.
And Spook i don't mean romantic comedies or Disney films.
Hey and no cheating and searching Google.......
I will start you of with a quote from a film.........
Sully remember when i said i will kill you last...........I lied
Edited by time2die (Sun 05-May-13 01:03:15)
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I think I know that quote but for the life if me I can't remember what it was. It was a Western I'm thinking... Argh - its tormenting me now. I give up!
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Seriously SPOOK? Remember Commando?
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Your turn timester.
"Intent? How did you establish that?"
"When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross."
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Dirty Harry
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Shucks you spilled the beans.........Right here are some more classics.
1/If it bleeds we can Kill It.
2/ Senator Don't [censored] down my back and tell me it's raining
3/ classic one liner from a fantastic 80s film...............Time2die
No points for cheating.........
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No 1 has to be Predator?
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No 3 Hasta la vista baby!!!
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No 2 Struggling with this one. Is a Clint Eastwood film? A Few Dollars More?
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Dirty Harry Couldn't be anybody else. Classic. 
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Number 1 is correct,number 2 is a film western Clint Eastwood directed in 1976 which was one of the best films he did.
Number 3 was directed by Ridley Scott ........No more clues.
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No 3 Alien or Aliens? I'll guess Alien.
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No 2 I gave in and cheated! Is it this?
Josey Wales: "When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long."
Lone Watie: "I notice when you get to dislikin' someone they ain't around for long neither."
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No. 3 is Bladerunner. We've had that one before haven't we, timey?
My turn! 4 questions as the first one is too easy but has to be asked.
1. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
2. "I can eat 50 eggs."
3. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
4. "You talkin' to me?"
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No. 3 is Bladerunner. We've had that one before haven't we, timey?
My turn! 4 questions as the first one is too easy but has to be asked.
1. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." Apocalypse Now.
2. "I can eat 50 eggs." No wonder you needed a new computer desk!
3. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." The Godfather.
4. "You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver.
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Good. 3 out of 4. Still have yet to sort a proper desk out... I don't move quick do I? Just call me sloth.
2. "I can eat 50 eggs."
A clue, same film as the classic line: "What we've got here is failure to communicate."
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Nope. still not ringing any bells mate.
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Well, if you've not watched Cool Hand Luke then you've really really gotta. It's a classic mate!
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Yep The Outlaw Josey Wales..
And the last one was a one word ending spoken by Rutger Hauer in this Film
Check out 3 minutes 10 seconds in..........
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Don't spoil it Spook give us a friggin chance to answer.........I knew that one no probs.
Edited by time2die (Mon 06-May-13 23:01:14)
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Oh, sorry. You should've come on the forum earlier!
"You'll never find a more retched hive of scum and villainy."
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Nobody? C'mon. Too easy?
"You'll never find a more retched hive of scum and villainy."
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Star Wars i cheated
Never liked them and never really watched one so i would never have got that line in a month of Sundays
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Ah right, so that was the reason for the delay.
Don't like Star Wars? Not even the original? Well, I guess you must be old then. I was just a whippersnapper when Star Wars Episode IV first came out.
So, you got a film quote need's answering then?
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Why would i be old just because i don't like Star Wars which is for little boys. ,i don't like lots of films but its not because of my age spooky .
I need your clothes ,your boots and your Motorcycle 
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Why would i be old just because i don't like Star Wars which is for little boys.,i don't like lots of films but its not because of my age spooky .
I need your clothes ,your boots and your Motorcycle
Exactly!
Easy peasy, Terminator 2 Judgement Day (bonus points)
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend; those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
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Seen that film 100 times and a all time Sergio Leone,[rip] classic......The Good The Bad and the Ugly .....
Hey Blonde you know what you are,your just a dirty son of a ARRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH
Yeah bonus point on the easy one i gave you...
when i was 18 i went to the cinema most weeks and went to a all night clint Eastwood spectacular,fistful of dollars,a few dollars more,The Good The Bad and the Ugly,and Hang em High ......something i would like to do to you spooky cheeky young whipper snapper...
Apart from the fact i have the dvd box set collection and every time its on Sky i watch it again and again and know it word for word..
Thats you thats is TUKO............
There are 2 kinds of Spurs my friend......Those that come in by the door......And those that come in by the window.
Edited by time2die (Wed 08-May-13 15:21:33)
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when i was 18 i went to the cinema most weeks and went to a all night clint Eastwood spectacular,fistful of dollars,a few dollars more,The Good The Bad and the Ugly,and Hang em High ......something i would like to do to you spooky cheeky young whipper snapper...
Ha ha. It's nice to be loved, Blondie.
I've got that boxset too. Another classic is, well, can you guess from the quote:
"Duck, you sucker!"
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James coburn in a fistful of dynamite
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Spot on! Brilliant film innit?
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