As an example, a player might notice an enemy sneaking up "behind" him in his peripheral vision, as the enemy would be physically projected behind the player onto a wall. The patent application notes that the system could be used to make video games more realistic. In shorter terms, as noted by Ars Technica, it looks something like a poor man's holodeck. The user could then be tracked within the environment by a depth camera (a Kinect, perhaps?). The application describes a system that would augment a "primary display" – say, a television – with a "peripheral image" projected onto the surrounding environment, essentially extending the image of the primary display all around the user. A Microsoft patent application for an "immersive display experience" has been published by the USPTO.
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