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JaggedSac on 10 May 2009
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Squilliam said:
JaggedSac said:
Microsoft is definitely heading the services route in a big way. They just completed one of the biggest CDNs in the world for their services, aka Live, Virtual Earth, and their Cloud OS. If bandwidth can make a leap, M$ will be in a good position to deliver a compelling streaming service for gaming. They have the brand and the infrastructure already in place to allow them to capitalize on this avenue. No other gaming company is in a position to quickly deliver and dominate a service such as this. Maybe Blizzard or Valve, but even their infrastructures are minuscule compared to the network that M$ just rolled out.

As for the camera, I think it will definitely be used for more than gaming. But the scope of functionality that the 360 offers at this time doesn't give much other use besides gaming. You could start up the box and scroll through the NXE to a Netflix movie or something without even having to get out of your chair, but unless they offer a browser or some other functionality, the use of the peripheral will probably be limited to gaming. And I am not sure how I feel about playing a game without a controller, unless they plan on combining the two, and that might be a little weird.

Once M$ gets all of their disparate groups that develop services together into one cohesive whole, it will be hard to top. Also, I hope they offer a combined subscription for Zune and Xbox Live.

CDN? What does that mean? Has their server infrastructure increased substantially, if thats what you're saying?

Anyway the reason why I thought that a camera will be useful for doing OS work is considering the type of 3d depth camera they will likely deploy they could probably have the accuracy to type which has been the main draw back for trying to do computing with a TV based operating system. If the rumours are true they may even deploy it now and then integrate their service into some brands of TV, because there really seems to be a push towards integration and their service could probably leg up every other competitor simply by being called Windows.

 

 

CDN is a content delivery network.  It is basically a bunch of nodes deployed in a way that the consumer's network traffic does not have to travel far no matter where they are.  My company has our own servers located on the east coast of America, so we use the services of a CDN to aleviate the customers from having to go all the way to our servers for every request.  So someone on the west coast would hit the CDN servers for a lot of the request.  Akamai is a company that sells their CDN services to companies, but M$ has their own network.  They recently upgraded their network and it is one of the biggest in the world.  They did this for their new Cloud services, Live, and also Virtual Earth.

Yeah, if this motion detector is good, I can definitely see them adding this to lots of things.  I can definitely see clapping to turn on the 360, and flipping my hands around to get to some content I want to see.  If put in tvs it could be used to change channels, raise the volume, mute, and pretty much map a hand gesture(one that would be relevant to the request) for every button of a remote.  Hell, we could all be John Maddens and draw lines over paused images.  I definitely see a use for a non controller motion detector, but at this point I am not looking to kindly upon its gaming uses.  Seems kinda silly watching people drive a car with just their hands.  Although, I guess I could just make my own fake wheel.