HP shows off some future-gen gaming tech

So we hit up HP's Gaming Summit which, as it turned out, only seemed peripherally related to gaming besides the announcement of an unnamed mid-to-high end gaming brand this year. Still, their R&D labs were happy to drag some old favorites out of the vault -- like the Misto touchscreen-based coffee table -- as well as show of some hitherto unseen technologies, such as:

Pluribus - Our favorite: use a camera (for alignment) and as many off-the-shelf projectors as you want to make a scalable, massive, composite-projected screen. Users can choose software assisted alignments that result in resolution, redundancy, enhanced brightness, or combinations therein. In the 12 projector demo we saw, a 15-foot composite display which was almost totally unaffected by someone walking through it. (Check out this slide to get a general idea as to how it works. Forgive us, HP, for our crude mockup.)

Panoply - Kind of the same take as Pluribus, but for an immersive game or theater environment. Use software alignment techniques with a camera to line up two off-the-shelf projectors without having to go through the pain of setting up a complicated wraparound display.

mscape - Another project Voodoo's Sood discussed was mscape, a new mobile gaming and media entertainment platform in development to take advantage of augmented reality, movement, biometrics, GPS, and so, so many other buzzwords. Seems pie in the sky, but we'd like to see what happens if they launch.

Interested? Check out the gallery.

Gallery: HP shows off some future-gen gaming tech

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[Mark @ Apr 5th 2007 7:54AM]

First post !

kinda pointless to use that many projectors for one screen, but then again the idea of having a screen that can't be obstructed could have its uses

[Gil @ Apr 5th 2007 8:03AM]

These aren't new things but what's really cool is that they've taken stuff that are mindboggling complicated and put them in an easy* to use package.


*probably easy for computer geeks

[dave @ Apr 5th 2007 10:19AM]

Can we have the source for this article? Its very interesting but finding it hard to locate it elsewhere,
thanks

[Ryan Block @ Apr 5th 2007 11:12AM]

We are the source, we were there and did the original reporting.

[Dave @ Apr 5th 2007 11:31AM]

Hi Ryan,
thanks - nice work! I am actually looking for more information on the event, like, who was there, where was it, is there website for it? There are no company links, or full names of people presenting...actually little info except for a description of the stuff itself :)

[Dave @ Apr 5th 2007 11:57AM]

more info on the mscape project and the 'invite only' conference.
http://www.rahulsood.com/
Voodoo founder blog

video of mscape:
http://technorati.com/tag/Mediascapes

Hp labs R&D
http://h20325.www2.hp.com/blogs/wee/archive/2007/02/12/2435.html

maybe next time engadget can provide more info like this

[The_ALCHEMlST @ Apr 5th 2007 1:00PM]

This is all saweeet!
Having multiple projectors for one display, ah man, can literally make a HUGE seamless screen; Future arcades are gonna be sweet, having auto-riggin software is cool, idiot friendly.
Anybody remember hering about inkjet-printable bendy screens? I remember MS had a big curved screen that rolled up in the works years ago.
As for Mscape, time to design another game!