Xbox concept expands video games from the TV to walls and ceiling
A new proof-of-concept by Microsoft lets Xbox video games project images around the player’s room.
A new proof-of-concept by Microsoft lets Xbox video games project images around the player’s room.
In an otherwise underwhelming keynote speech at this year's CES tradeshow, Microsoft made a play to control the biggest screen in the house.
The gossip blogs had a field day a few weeks ago, homing in on a patent filing unearthed by GoRumors that implied Microsoft's Kinect motion-control camera for the Xbox 360 might recognize sign language.
Giving away video game systems...it's part and parcel of the games industry. Companies dispatch review units perennially and often expect them to remain where sent. But giving them away as "gifts" to thousands of people during a live round-the-world broadcast, including the ginormous iconic screens in Times Square? I'd call that pretty much unprecedented.
Microsoft took the wraps off Kinect (nee Project Natal) at E3 2010, promising an experience that will "bring living rooms to life in a social and accessible way."
It's smaller, shinier, and back in black: Microsoft's new Xbox 360 took many by surprise at last month's E3.