Fancy an upgraded IMAX projector with cinema specs in your living room or a secret ceiling projector that pretends to be a magic lamp? XGIMI has you covered. At CES 2024, the company is showing off its Horizon Max, an IMAX projector that features smart software and the use of dual light sources to deliver a wider color gamut, rich brightness, and improved contrast. The same technologies will also reach some of the company’s more modest projectors.
The Horizon Max will be unveiled early, as it’s not expected to go on sale until late 2024. But XGIMI is clearly very pleased with the device, which it claims is the world’s first IMAX-certified long-throw smart projector improved. something that was previously only available on very premium priced projectors. The goal here is to create the best 4K projector for people who want cinematic images faithful to the aspect ratio of the original film (available through Disney Plus and some 4K Blu-rays), although we don’t know which one that is yet. The real price will be.
Let there be light (double)
The Max includes two key technologies, which XGIMI calls ISA (Intelligent Screen Architecture) 5.0 and Dual Light 2.0. The former uses a combination of hardware and software including a fully automated motorized gimbal to automatically identify the best projection position and, with a smart touch, can remember the settings of different walls, so you can play on a wall and then rotate the projector to Face a larger wall for movie night and the system will automatically reconfigure it.
The second technology, Dual Light 2.0, combines a triple laser and a phosphor light. The latter is designed to address any imperfections produced by the former, and the result is bright (3100 ISO lumens) and high contrast, with a native contrast ratio of 2000:1. XGIMI says it’s the company’s brightest projector to date, with 35% greater brightness than its previous flagship, the Horizon Ultra.
Aladdin’s last lamp is really smart
XGIMI will also introduce Aladdin, which it calls “a unique triple threat”: it’s a ceiling projector, a smart light and a speaker in one device. It is capable of projecting an HD image up to 100 inches with a 0.7:1 throw ratio and the built-in Harman Kardon speaker offers 360-degree sound. Aladdin also provides dynamic wallpapers, huge interactive children’s books and ambient bedtime sounds; His many talents earned him an honorable mention among the CES 2024 Innovation Awards.
Unfortunately, Aladdin will not be released in the United States or Europe in the first half of this year; It will be released in Japan in June, but a wider release has yet to be announced. However, it’s a very smart idea for rooms with limited space that want big images: it can replace the light and do a useful job most of the time, and then suddenly you can watch movies out of nowhere, without any surface of your room is affected. absorbed by the team.
