M$ XBOX Reveal - "A Real Taste Of The Future" #pause
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The next XBox is gonna always be online for you to play your games.
Damn
That ain't confirmed.
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DEAL WITH IT!!
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DEAL WITH IT!!
lol @ Adam Orth. I don't have to deal with it because to be honest, if it turns out true, I don't have an issue with it. My Xbox 360 and PS3 pretty much stay online any way. And lol @ you guys taking some guy at MS defending the CONCEPT of always online with his opinion as official confirmation. Come on now. Pretty funny, though.
Yeah, I've seen this video and like I said it's not confirmed. First off, anything being said by anyone outside of MS, concerning rumors, should be taken with a grain of salt. That's common sense. Even if you take that ? to heart, the "tech blogger" claims the next Xbox is always online but it isn't as "draconian" as everyone seems to believe, meaning it won't be as cruel, severe or as strict as everyone thinks. Even if it is always online in some way, that doesn't necessarily mean you just can't play games at all w/o an active internet connection. We gotta wait and see.
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? sick!!Microsoft’s IllumiRoom peripheral projector is the Xbox 720′s killer feature
Microsoft has strongly hinted that the IllumiRoom augmented reality peripheral projector is linked to the next-generation Xbox 720, in much the same way that Project Natal (Kinect) was eventually linked to the Xbox 360. To celebrate, Microsoft has released a new video that showcases the awesome potential of IllumiRoom, and also a ton of details on how IllumiRoom actually works.
If you missed the original IllumiRoom unveil, let me bring you up to speed. IllumiRoom is a wide-angle projector that’s (ideally) situated on your coffee table, pointed at your big-screen TV. The current prototype has a Kinect strapped to the projector, but the final version will have a Kinect sensor built in. The built-in Kinect uses an automatic calibration process to captures the color and geometry (shape, depth) of the wall behind and furniture around your TV. Then you hook the IllumiRoom up to your next-generation Xbox (wirelessly), and watch in awe as peripheral projection takes you to new levels of game immersion.
It isn’t until you watch the video that you begin to understand just how awesome peripheral projection is. The video above was captured in real-time, and hasn’t been edited or composited in any way. What you see is really what you will get, with the Xbox 720 and IllumiRoom projector.
Using its knowledge of your living room’s colors and geometry, IllumiRoom can create a huge range of visually stunning effects. As you see in the video, IllumiRoom can boost the color saturation of your furniture (by projecting red light on a mahogany cupboard), turn your furniture black and white (by projecting desaturated colors), or outline every edge, creating a cartoony effect. IllumiRoom can also project a star field, snowflakes that gather on your shelves, or a futuristic Tron-like grid. One of the weirdest effects, called radial wobble, takes a photo of your living room, distorts it, and then projects the distorted image — so it looks like your living room is wobbling around.
The real magic takes place when games are programmed to take advantage of IllumiRoom, though. At its most basic, IllumiRoom projects the game world onto the wall/furniture, expanding your field of view; imagine sitting on the couch and having the world of Skyrim take up your entire field of view. Another option is to have IllumiRoom only display important features, such as projectiles and explosions — so instead of a shot missing you, you might see the bullet fly off to your left. Taking this one step further, IllumiRoom also makes it possible for objects — such as grenades — to roll out of the TV and onto the floor in front of your coffee table.
All of these effects can be combined — so the next Halo game might have rockets that fly into your peripheral vision, grenades that roll towards you, rain that puddles on the floor, and furniture that ripples whenever you’re struck by a plasma rifle. The same effects can also be used with non-game content; Peter Jackson could release a new version of Lord of the Rings that makes use of IllumiRoom, for example.
All told, the Microsoft Research team that developed IllumiRoom has created 11 different effects (detailed in their research paper), and they say that a lot more are possible. They have shown IllumiRoom to 10 gamers and 15 game designers, with both groups providing “very positive feedback.” Moving forward, IllumiRoom now has to be productized — it has to be turned into a single unit, encapsulating both a projector and Kinect sensor. “Ideally, IllumiRoom would be directly integrated into a next generation console and new games would be designed for IllumiRoom from the ground up,” the research paper says.
Considering Microsoft originally unveiled IllumiRoom at Samsung’s CES keynote, we’re fairly certain that Microsoft is working with Samsung to bring IllumiRoom to market. As for whether IllumiRoom will be ready for the Xbox 720′s launch this winter, who knows. Price-wise, going by the current price of wide-angle LED projectors, we’re probably talking about a few hundred dollars, too.
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Genius move by M$ having the next XBOX and next generation Call of Duty revealed at the same event. It doesnt get any bigger really. The internet will explode that day, plus it will be televised nationally. They will have all eyes on them. So...
- Next gen Call of Duty Reveal
- Respawn's first game revealed
- IllumiRoom
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IF the 720 ships with illumiroom, they can just take my money now
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But...how do I hide offline from all my corny "Xbox friends?"
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P swayze166 wrote: »But...how do I hide offline from all my corny "Xbox friends?"
Change your status to "Appear Offline" in the preferences like always.
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12 days until Sony's funeral.
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kanggoodie wrote: »IF the 720 ships with illumiroom, they can just take my money now
Day ? one cop if it does. Im guessing illumiroom will cost at least 100 tho -
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Next Xbox Reportedly Smaller With ‘Flattened’ Controllers
New dashboard update may be headed to 360 to prepare for release.
by Andrew Goldfarb
May 17, 2013
A new rumor may have provided the first details about Microsoft’s next console and controllers. According to The Verge, anonymous sources suggest that the new console is “smaller and denser” than the Xbox 360 with “newly designed controllers that are said to be ‘flattened’ in appearance.”
Microsoft is also said to be prepping a new dashboard update for the Xbox 360 to prepare for the transition to its new console. The update will reportedly enter beta in late June or early July with a final release planned for August, and will feature a user interface update to more closely align with smaller Live Tiles like those coming to Windows 8.1. Microsoft is also allegedly “tweaking the look of the Xbox dashboard, with the possibility of darker or lighter themes.”
The Verge’s report also suggests that Microsoft “is aiming to ensure Xbox 360 users can transition over to the next-generation console and interact with existing Xbox 360 users using messaging, beacons, and achievements.” Their sources also reportedly confirmed last week’s rumor that Microsoft will abandon Microsoft Points in its new console and say that the reveal event for the console will include details about its integrated broadcast TV features.
For now, all of this is just a rumor, but we’ll find out official details in just four days when Microsoft reveals its next-gen Xbox on May 21st. Be sure to tune into IGN’s pre-show beginning at 9:00 a.m. Pacific for our coverage, which will also feature special guest Peter Molyneux, creator of Fable and former Lionhead Studios boss.
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"We definitely have a lot of surprises planned."
by Mitch Dyer MAY 17, 2013
May 21 may be the reveal of the next Xbox, allegedly named Xbox Infinity, but "E3, if you're a gamer, it's going to be tons of exclusives, world premieres," said Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg. The head of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment business continued, "And obviously even beyond that we have a lot to share between than and this holiday."
In a discussion on Microsoft's official gaming podcast, Major Nelson Radio, Greenberg, teased, "We definitely have a lot of surprises planned" for the Xbox Reveal event on May 21. "People are going to get a great inside look at really the making of the new platform and the team that's brought it to life."
Greenberg continued, "The team here has been hard at work for many many years on what we're going to show in the next few weeks. We have so much goodness that there's no way we could have packed it into one event."
See for yourself how the Xbox Reveal lives up to the hype on May 21. IGN's coverage of the event starts promptly at 9am Pacific and lasts throughout the day as we go behind the scenes on Microsoft's campus.
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lol ? aint crashing the thread by now?
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Exclusives? You mean their making a new Halo and a new Gears of War
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one more day b4 xbox ? on the IC stans lol
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grumpy_new_yorker wrote: »
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Forza 5 Looking More Likely for Next-Gen Xbox Event
McLaren Automotive says “we think you might like what they're announcing...”
by Andrew Goldfarb MAY 20, 2013
New evidence makes an announcement of Forza Motorsport 5 look even more likely for tomorrow’s Xbox Reveal event.
In a post on its official Facebook page, car manufacturer McLaren Automotive wrote that tomorrow “Xbox is revealing something special. We think you might like what they’re announcing...” McLaren, of course, has had cars in previous Forza installments and could be hinting at an additional appearance from one of its vehicles.
Meanwhile, Siliconera has spotted a trademark for Forzavista filed by Microsoft, potentially hinting at a new name for the Autovista feature seen in Forza 4. -
I'd love to see a new, Peter Molyneux-helmed Fable game revealed. I mean an actual Fable game, not no Kinect ? . I was addicted to the first one back in the day.
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Fable is ass cheeks.
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...and Molyneux is a ? .
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Interested to see how this works with the Smart Glass tech now they've had time to perfect it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15BUxXTkUqU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmkor9WF0U
