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Microsoft Releases Official Xbox Live App

7 Dec

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Microsoft, via Xbox Live evangelist Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, has just announced the immediate release of the company’s first Xbox Live iOS app, My Xbox Live [Free]. It’s a free app that basically acts as a mobile companion to some of the more important aspects of the service. You can read and send messages to anyone on your Friend’s List, manage that list or invite new people onto it, edit your profile, gander at all of your hard-earned achievements, or even mess with your Avatar’s apparel.

via Microsoft Releases Official Xbox Live App | Touch Arcade.

Huge Upgrade to Xbox Live Includes Live TV And Voice Controlled Kinect

5 Dec

Xbox Live isn’t just an online gaming service anymore. Microsoft is announcing today that the new version of its Xbox Live user interface will help transform entertainment on the television. The upgrade goes live on Tuesday.

Calling it the future of TV, Microsoft is unveiling of a user interface for the Xbox 360 console’s dashboard; it is also unveiling dozens of new options for watching movies and TV on the game box. And Microsoft has improved the quality of using voice commands to move from one choice to another on the box or to search through all of the entertainment options at your disposal in an instant.

via Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control | VentureBeat.

XBox Sale Hit Record Week

30 Nov

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The Xbox 360 saw its biggest sales week in the product’s history during last week’s “Black Friday” sales rush, according to Microsoft.

In all, over 960,000 consoles were sold in the United States during the week, the company said Tuesday. Of those, 800,000 were sold within a 24-hour period.

Additionally, 750,000 Kinect sensors were sold during the week, between standalone units and those bundled with consoles.

This record week comes during the system’s seventh year on the market, an unprecedented accomplishment for a video game console.

via Gamasutra – News – Black Friday Week Biggest In Xbox History.

The Next Microsoft XBox Kinect Just Might Read Lips

28 Nov

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Microsoft plans to release a next-generation Kinect device so accurate it can lip read, sources have told Eurogamer.

Kinect 2 will come bundled with future Xbox consoles, we understand.

The intention is that Kinect 2 will offer improved motion sensing and voice recognition.

One development source told Eurogamer that Kinect 2 will be so powerful it will enable games to lip read, detect when players are angry, and determine in which direction they are facing.

Kinect 2 can track the pitch and volume of player voices and facial characteristics to measure different emotional states.

via Kinect 2 so accurate it can lip read • Eurogamer.net.

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