Forgot your password?   Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room
Projection Game Environment  Comments Filter:   • Re:Graphics
cave (Score:4, Interesting)      by Howitzer86 (964585) on
Wednesday September 12, 2012 @03:04PM (#41316241)      CAVEs, or
CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment, come with devices called
trackers. One tracker is located on a pair of shutter glasses
that the user wears. This one tracks the location of your head,
which then adjusts the screens for distortion. The other tracker
is located in a device called a Wanda, which is much like a Wii-
mote but about 100 times more accurate. The trackers use a
magnetic field that fills not just the sides of the CAVE screens
it self (10x10x10 foot cube), but beyond that.      Microsoft's
innovation appears to be that it does the same thing, but with
just one projector, that uses the walls around the room for
peripheral vision - a highly useful feature (just ask any
hardcore FPS gamer who has changed his FOV setting). It's
probably not as accurate or as pret