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In this video, Microsoft demos a system it is calling LightSpace: The most interesting part of this feels like the camera’s ability to sense and “understand” the people in the room. Cameras are now cheap, and it is easy to imagine rooms having little smoke-detector-shaped cameras in the ceiling that understand gestures and positions for [...]
According to Msnbc.com, Bungie’s latest (and supposedly final) full game set in the Halo universe sold enough copies for the Xbox 360 to hit $200 million in sales on its first day. According to Microsoft, this makes Halo: Reach the biggest opening day of any entertainment venture this year, including movies. Of course, you don’t have to pay $60 to catch a flick at your local cineplex (yet), so I think that claim is a bit misleading. Dollar for dollar, Halo: Reach comes out the champ but if you compare ticket sales to units sold I think it’d be a different story.
Internet Explorer 9 Beta – A Glimpse at the Future Web
by Jonathan Strickland | September 15, 2010
Today, Microsoft is unveiling the beta release of Internet Explorer 9. It wasn’t that long ago that I sat down with Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, the general manager for Internet Explorer, to talk about IE 8. The eighth incarnation of the browser was a big step forward for Microsoft. But compared to Internet Explorer 9, IE 8 was just a baby step.
The other day, I was astonished to learn that Microsoft had decided to drop its two brand-new smartphones, the Kin One and Kin Two. Oh, I suppose it wasn’t brand new. I mean, the two phones were almost two months old. That’s ancient for some technology. Nonetheless, after taking the time, effort and expense to acquire Danger…
In a normal 3D screen, the screen displays one image for the left eye, and then a separate image for the right eye. Shutter glasses then show the correct image to the left and right eye by blocking every other image.
In the 3DS display, a technique called parallax-barrier technology is used, as described here…
Visiting Microsoft’s Xbox 360 booth at E3 is like getting an appetizer sampler plate at a restaurant — you get to see a little of everything. It’s a great booth to hit if you want to get your hands on games like Tron, Fable III or Rock Band 3. While other gamers, vendors and journalists are hitting the official booths for those games, you can wait in a much shorter line over at Microsoft to get a chance to test drive the games.
Once you read the article and sync up with his vibe, you look at this video from Microsoft and see exactly what he is talking about…
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As I type this, I’m sitting on a plane, flying toward Los Angeles. It’s time for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3. The video game conference nearly died out a couple of years ago when organizers decided to scale back and offer a more sedate experience. I guess video games and subtlety don’t go hand in hand.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo is right around the corner and I’m already preparing myself for what I’ll see while I’m there: hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of attendees, dozens of booth babes dressed up as superhero-ninja-nurse-clown zombies and the games the industry hopes will take the world by storm over the following year. But I’m really excited to get a closer look at Project Natal and the Sony PlayStation Move, two new control interfaces.
Google may be moving away from using the Microsoft Windows computer operating system in the company’s corporate offices, according to a report in The Financial Times. David Gelles and Richard Waters wrote that “several employees” have said Google is concerned about the security of the operating system, the newest version of which launched just last fall, and new employees aren’t given Windows as an operating system choice for their work computers.
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