Focus plus context screens and Extended Surrounding

Focus Plus Context Screens

Focus plus context screens consist of a hi-res display and a larger low-res display . Image content is displayed such that the scaling of the display content is preserved, while the resolution may vary according to which display region it is displayed in.  Focus plus context screens can be used for several applications like editing print products, finding the shortest path on the map, simulation games.

We have used a LCD ,  projector along with the "Focus plus context screen" technology to add an important feature our project to enhance the immersive viewing of the video content on the users television.

This feature displays a part of the video in the LCD screen (hi-res display)  and displays the rest around the LCD screen (low-res display). This gives the user an illusion that the content in the LCD screen is extended outside into his living room. For example, if someone is watching the movie 'Finding Nemo', then this feature enables the user to focus on the main character of the movie and extends the rest of the video around the television into his living room, there by creating a virtual world in his living room.

This feature is based on the paper  Focus Plus Context Screens: Combining Display Technology with Visualization Techniques.

Focus+context Screen

P.S. We will put up a better video this weekend!


Extended Surrounding

To change the ambience of the user's living room and give him/her the feeling that he/she is a part of the video that he/she is watching on the television we have added a feature called extended surrounding. This feature changes the ambience of the room based on the content being displayed in the video. Thereby making the user feel as if he/she is a part of the video that he is watching.
For example, if the user is watching a video of a rocket launch then the ambience of his room will change accordingly giving the user the feeling that he/she is actually present at the rocket launch event.