Razer unveils Project Ariana, a 4K projector that blurs the line between your screen and living room - eppersonyebere

Razer's crazy unused triple-display laptop might drive center stage this year, but the company also trotted out a more realistic concept during CES, too—a 4K projector. Yes, Razer is making a projector.

Okay, not just a projector. In fact, Project Ariana is suspiciously similar to Microsoft's perhaps-uninhabited IllumiRoom concept from a few years back. IllumiRoom utilized the Kinect's depth-sensing capabilities to mapping the area around your TV, and then took that information and "extended" your sort into the elbow room itself. Here's a demo from 2013:

IllumiRoom could also raise games in subtler slipway. The notable deterrent example was snow descending around the edges of the room while racing on a snowy track, and thus adding a bit more atmosphere to the elbow room you were in.

Project Ariana does the same, albeit without the each-in-one gizmo of the Kinect. Instead Razer uses a pair of 3D depth-sensing cameras—perhaps similar to the RealSense cameras used in its Stargazer webcam—to map proscribed a room and whatsoever furniture in it.

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Ariana can then project a diverseness of information, depending along what game developers choose to go through. Razer tossed a few examples at me during our discussion: elements of the game's user interface (corresponding a map of the area), countdown timers for skills, the university extension of the screen's edges onto the room's walls (just like IllumiRoom).

Powering all of this is Razer's Chroma lighting API, albeit a more high adaptation than the one secondhand to customize the company's RGB peripherals (keyboards, headsets, mice, mousepads). Fancy Ariana is actually a proof-of-concept for where Razer wants to go in the future.

"Video recording projection, particolored lighting, and the responsive intelligence operation of our Razer Chroma engine are dynamic the way of life we game today," aforementioned CEO Min-Liang Tan in a press eject. "Project Ariana is a concept design that showcases the power and potency of the Razer Chroma program in the pre-VR world in bridging the gap between gamers and games."

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That prospective includes third-parties, too—a licensing program was also announced at CES now. Razer declared in its handout that "a growing number of hardware partners are queued to leverage the Razer Chroma platform"—partners that include Lenovo, NZXT, Antec, Lian Li, Unredeemable Lasers, and Nanoleaf.

No thorny announcements yet happening what those third-party companies have planned, but it's an important step. Til now, all of these inflammation solutions—be it Logitech's, Barbary pirate's, Razer's, et al—throw functioned primarily as first-party value-adds. Razer's move might find out the commercialize increasingly divided aside the APIs used to baron cosmetic Light-emitting diode elements. Of all things.

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For now, though, Vividness's big plans involve just the projector. And even that power not get in out of the concept phase, given "Project" is the designation Razer tags on to all its in-flux ideas. However, I was told that Ariana is slated to launch by the conclusion of 2017, should it get decent constructive feedback.

That's far: Aside this prison term next year, you could have a Razer-branded 4K projector in your home. Weird.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/411541/razer-unveils-project-ariana-4k-projector-that-blurs-the-line-between-your-screen-and-living-room.html

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