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http://www.ambx.com/site/about/whatamBX is a new 'experience' technology currently being added to PC games and PC gaming peripherals. amBX is shorthand for ‘ambient experiences’. Driving the next generation of home entertainment, it’s a scripting language, a software engine and architecture.
But it’s what amBX does that makes all the difference.
With amBX, games and peripherals providing surround lighting, sound, vibration, air movement and other effects work in harmony together. The result is an incredibly immersive experience bringing game play into the room.
This same technology will be added into movies, music, web and other entertainment media in the near future.
immersion and interaction
If you’re a gamer, the virtual world reaches out from your screen. You feel the action: the movement of vehicles, shifts in lighting, rumbling explosions, ricocheting bullets, wind in your face. The mix of ambient lighting, vision, sound and tactile sensations mean the gaming experience will never be the same.
The applications of amBX are only limited by the imagination and creativity of content creators and, ultimately, end users. Just imagine ambient room lighting and other changes tied-in to your favourite music, to web content, interactive toys and games, books, or even to reflect the time of day and your changing moods?
An amBX-enabled world is starting to emerge around you – Bringing a new dimension to entertainment.
If you’re into movies and DVDs, amBX will take you into the action through the use, ambient surround lighting that feeds your senses in the same way surround sound heightens the audio experience.
In simple terms, it is a setup of lights, fans, and a rumble in the keyboard, to make the gaming experience as immersive as possible.
Depending on what your doing, the lights wil light up to match the situation and the fans will start blowing.
If your running through a field, you may feel a slight breeze coming from the fans.
If your shooting a machine gun, then the lights will light up bright and your keyboard will start rumbling.
Heres a video on how it works:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mmKjYdFFNWA&feature=related
Heres videos of it while playing games:
AmBX with Warhammer
AmBX with Gizmodo
(In the vids above, you can see the fans blowing, but they are)