... He won't be at the conference/in the conference itself.

Same, actually didn't realise how "popular" the franchise was untill recently. :)

They use a tent for the purpose of ventilation. My sources confirm there will indeed be a lot of hot air present.

Seems like they're REALLY trying to control what gets out early. Might there be more surprises than we think ...?

Last post of the day, so from neogaf:

"I did a bit of research, and it looks the same structure as the Build event, but a bit smaller. The Build one has 10 x 17 support legs, while the Xbox event has 8 x 10. So it looks like 2/3 of the Build tent."

*click for large* Note: that's left and middle row, there was also a right one.

seems big enough

Seems appropriate.

LOL

The population on these forums was much more pronounced many years ago, but they were largely purged by biased moderators. The population sadly has never recovered from that debacle, and this community got a bad reputation. Hopefully with the start of a new console generation the community might begin to finally start to grow back.

A belated welcome to the forums by the way.

My guess is they want it here to be able to privately show some of the technology they have without having to disrupt the work on it by moving it to another facility.

For instance, IllumiRoom.  By just walking people into the building to give them a private demo of it, they avoid having to pack up everything they're working on, transporting it, then setting it up and having to reverse the process when they're done.  Everything else, which is likely not "show-floor ready" can be walked out then walked back in when the shin-dig is over with.