The look home entertainment continues to evolve, but few innovations in the field have been more talked about in the last few months than Microsoft’s IllumiRoom project, where University of Illinois graduate and current PhD candidate Brett Jones is one of the principle researchers.

IllumiRoom is “a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with peripheral projected illusions to enhance traditional gaming viewing experiences.”

IllumiRoom is one of many major research projects Microsoft Research is presenting at this week’s Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) Conference in Paris, France.

Microsoft IllumiRoom Demo