ethomaz said:
It was not real-time... they showed the same demo a week after with the same interface showing the same dated Bing background... they tried to show the interface in a video after that but the thing lagged a lot... so after that no new video from the UI. Behind the scene (closed doors) the talk was the swap feature worked at 5fps... of course that was in May/June... I'm sure the UI is far better today like the video leaked by the son of a MS employee. |
The screens are pre-populated, yes. But it is an actual representation of the UI and what he was doing with the UI was real-time.
They have said, on more than a few occassions that the UI screens have been pre-populated. There is no way they could have had images of the UI with various inset images available without the information being pre-populated. However, that's an aspect of the UI. That being the ability for the UI to make a network connection, retrieve the layout info, pull down the images and display them. When you don't have people actively creating content for a new version of LIVE that the content team doesn't actually have access to, yes you're going to use pre-populated pages. Even Bing. I'm sure at that point in time it was the only way to ensure that you consistently had content, considering people were and are still, actively working on things.
The operation of the UI was real-time. There was no clicker. You can hear, in the video, through his mic, the Xbox One making noise when he issues voice commands. If that was a slide on a laptop, you wouldn't hear that. Not to mention the times when his hands are completely out of his pockets and he's interacting with the UI either through voice or gesture.