thx1139 said:
There are a good deal of mis-conceptions about SmartGlass.
SmartGlass is not A App. SmartGlass is an app platform. One of the apps is the Xbox Companion that is already available today on Windows Phone and Windows 8 Release Preview. Believe it has already been announced for iOS and Android.
The Xbox Live Companion app will be enhanced with new features (like taking control of IE Xbox). In addition, game and app developers can use the platform for their own apps. For instance Halo4, Dance Central 3, Ascend New Gods and the new Karoke game will have their own apps that can be downloaded to the individual devices. They will use the SmartGlass platform API to interact with the Xbox.
MS has said that the API is HTML5 friendly so MS is making it as easy as possible for app developers to implement apps across different platforms. MS will simply provide the API to do it.
MS has also stated that up to 4 devices can be connected to the Xbox at the same time.
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That depends on how you want to look at it. To the end user, SmartGlass is an app that you download from an app store. That's it. That's all they have to do.
If they have the app running, then the content being fed by the console will appear on the phone or tablet. The end user will not have to download a specific app for each application/game that supports it. In other words, SmartGlass is a push service, not a pull service.
