jDome's immersive wrap-around gaming

(Credit: jDome)

Looks like I just lost my bragging rights for gaming on a 100-inch screen.

Someone has patented a 180-degree gaming system dubbed jDome, which delivers a one-of-a-kind wraparound visual experience. Interestingly, it works pretty much like a rear projection screen and relies on a front projector to recreate the Omnimax-like effects. One of these will easily set you back $6,000, though its inventor John Nilsson apparently spent only around $125 to $200 to patent and develop the product, according to Ubergizmo.

We're just wondering whether anyone would like to give this a go using a white brolly instead. How's that for an inexpensive and somewhat practical alternative?

(Source: Crave Asia)

[pbourke]

The iDome does the same thing but higher quality and no distortion.
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/UnityiDome/
Of course it's somewhat more expense .... still just one projector.