Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 was a perhaps not the Wii-toppler they hoped it would be but it is, undisputedly, an impressive piece of technology with a lot of untapped potential. Their latest utilastion of the equipment is called the IllumiRoom and involves the scanning of the room by the camera and the projection of the peripherals of the TV screen on the walls, all around the viewer.

Closing the distance between home television and the cinema experience, this idea looks like it may be used beyond just video games and could potentially improve all on screen entertainment . Similar tech designed to increase immersion, such as the Philips Ambilight models, have been seen in television for years but this idea seems like a more significant step towards a real-life Star Trek holodeck.