Positive Technology Journal

Via Pasta and Vinegar

amBX is a Philips project for a system that should provide gamers with a full ‘sensory surround experience’ allowing them to use light, colour, sound, heat and even airflow in the real world during gameplay.

A light year leap in ambient experience – to the world of computer gaming, spotlighting a technology that will revolutionize the game play experience and extend the gaming world out of the screen and into the real world.

Due for release in May 2006 and coming from the Surrey-based Philips amBX Group, amBX is a step towards a full ‘sensory surround experience’ and enabled games will provide gamers with the ability to use light, colour, sound, heat and even airflow in the real world during gameplay.