Boffins program peripheral visions for ultra TV immersion Scientists have improved the immersive experience of watching telly, with projectors which extend our views into peripheral vision territory. Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have put together software which extends the image viewed on our tellies onto extra screens in a suitably blurry fashion to mimic what we see in our …
>the practicalities and adoption
Seems pretty simple to implement, just repeat the edge pixels. If ever widely adopted, you can imagine content-producers adding an extra low-res video stream for the deluxe version. A good use for old, low res projectors, too.
However, this system might require you to have fairly minimal room decoration- a few picture frames and a bookshelf would, I imagine, lessen the effect or make it irritating.
There are plenty of films that don't feature explosions. However, a helluva lot do - from Lawrence of Arabia to Transformers. I would imagine that most war-films are aimed at people who have never been in a war, though- the same goes for crime thrillers and spy films.
An interesting thought: Home cinema kit is bought by older, more mature and richer viewers who have no interest in going to the cinema to see a Michael Bay film in an auditorium full of teenagers. Therefore, big cinema films are aimed at a younger age group than once they were.
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I imagine you could get some kind of white rollerblind style setup that can mask your shelves etc when needed.
I also imagine there's no way I could actually be arsed to arrange that kind of setup though.
I also imagine that even if I could be arsed, there's no way the missus would let me.
Finally, I imagine that if I could be arsed and I managed to persuade the missues, the end result would almost certainly be hardly worth the bother.
Bah, this is just like my idea that I completely failed to patent, implement, or tell anyone other than the wife, who was not listening.
The MIT thing is a bit more than ambilight, although the video is very poor at explaining why (with the sound off, I didn't bother to put headphones in). About half way through the demo, it tracks a rudimentary version of the tree object into the periphery.
My idea was using a bit of look ahead on the frames to stitch together accompanying panoramas for panning/zooming shots. All the image information is there (in pre-recorded media) to create very detailed periphery in as good as real time, if it's a more joined up hardware solution.
I wonder if I should tell Dolby about my infinite surround sound solution, or just moan a little bit when they invent it in a few years.
Back in 1990, I was able to go to see "La Geode" in Paris ... its a hemispherical IMAX cinema. I was lucky enough to see a 3d film of atoms not only whizzing up to you, but then, thanks to the screen wrapping around you, *past* you. Quite a weird experience to see something appear between you and the person next to you ......
No, no, no, that's WONDERFUL!!
Give the adfartisers loads of white space where it doesn't matter then TURN OFF THE BLOODY PROJECTORS.
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Now all that's needed is content to make TV worth watching.
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Their version, shown at Kingswood, was particularly impressive on urban landscapes and gave a sense of being within the built up areas.
Not sure I can see what MIT have done to improve it, bar porting it to a more consumer-like platform or used newer hardware to get nearer to real-time processing.
I've been seeing all those "3D surround" setups demonstrated by Nvidia and AMD, and they certainly provide clearer peripheral vision view. And all you need are three identical LCD displays which is certainly cheaper than one LCD display plus two projectors (or if you're the kind of guy, three LCD projectors).
So, what's the advantage of MIT's solution again?
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