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Microsoft Hardware teaser: 'Say Goodbye to Laser'

Microsoft Hardware, the unit that makes the company's mice and keyboards, has scheduled a Sept. 9 event in Seattle to unveil its latest product lineup. Today it launched an animation teasing a new product, with the tag line, "Say Goodbye to Laser."

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thereapersson6491d ago

One can only speculate what this could be...

kevanio096491d ago

I would have to agree. Windows 7 is putting a large emphasis on touch control, speech recognition ect.

Dont think the mouse will die so easily though. How would fps games be played?

RealityCheck6491d ago (Edited 6491d ago )

I'm going to go on a limb and speculate that it will be a mouse with no trackball and no laser, just using internal gyros so no need to even be on a surface. Maybe this mouse could even be used as a wiimote clone for the PC.

Leathersoup6491d ago

I thought gyros only tracked rotation around an axis.

DJ6491d ago

The Sixaxis sensor for example can detect directional momentum, so it's not farfetched to see the technology in a mouse. This should be a pretty cool announcement.

Xi6491d ago

motion sensing is done via 2 gyro's and accelerometer. That provides all the requirements for 1-1 motion.

Leathersoup6490d ago

Ah ok. The person above me had just mentioned gyros.

You'd think you'd require more than one accelerometer. One accelerometer is capable of taking care of 2 axises but wouldn't the third axis still require a second accelerometer?

I can understand the gyro's being required for direction angle though.

Spydiggity6490d ago (Edited 6490d ago )

well they've been talking for a while about infrared motion detection. basically it'll just track your finger movement. so there won't be a physical keyboard. you could easily do the same for a mouse. i'm not sure how'd i'd feel about that for gaming. and i'm just guessing, but we'll see. but i do think it's mouse related.

PoSTedUP6490d ago

its their next console and its all going to be digital distrubuted games with no discs and no lasers.

their was a console that was expose to come out around the begingin of 2000 that was called the "Dragon" or something along the line of that word. and it was a console that used no discs and all the games were installed and or downloaded but it didnt come out for some reason, i think it was too ahead of its time and they were paid off not to bring it out, dont really know the whole story though. but that would be the only logical suggestion of "no lasers" in a console.

it makes perfect sence too casue sony is starting to show digital distrubution in their nexgen games and MS said that digital distrubution is the future, i thats what i believe.

NO_PUDding6490d ago

USB so I can use it on my PS3 web browser :D

geda6490d ago

this is microsoft hardware. they make mice and keyboards.

M_Prime6490d ago (Edited 6490d ago )

It could be anything when u think about it

lsujester6490d ago

We should go back to trackballs. I miss taking out the ball to clean the lint from the bars. LOL

Blasphemy6490d ago

PostedUp your talking about the Phantom. It was basically strapped. I don't think it would have worked anyway we are not ready for DD. I just don't see a console being that successful with DD only especially with how big some games are now days and how slow our bandwith is stateside.

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PoSTedUP6490d ago

yea thats it- the phantom, my bad. but yea man the only thing i cant think of with no lasers is DD, but you right about the huge games and poor bandwidth., i dunno what it could be then....

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Zhuk6491d ago

I wonder what incredible and revolutionary product the award winning engineers at Microsoft have come up with this time, undoubtedly it is light years ahead of where the competition are now

OmarJA6491d ago

" incredible and revolutionary product the award winning engineers at Microsoft "

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juuken6491d ago

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Pain6490d ago (Edited 6490d ago )

Such sour losers that Sony's Blu-ray won they putting all there games On Flash drives!!!

have fun with M$ DRM kids.

@1? M$ Revolutionarily?? You beter hope there is a God kid cuz if not your Screwed.

and you should go work for Fox news (American propaganda news that is) the crap u spew is Light years ahead of them, u would fit nice there.

NO_PUDding6490d ago

Shame they can't do that revolutionary work for their software or games division.

blackbeld6490d ago

woww!!! that means more BSOD... and more work for me as engineer.. lol.. and more $$$$ for me..

JasonPC360PS3Wii6490d ago

Exploding batteries from Sony... We blow that smile right off your face.

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sak5006491d ago

Hmmm cool stuff can't wait for the announcement

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mrnjl6491d ago

Eye recognition would be cool. A camera can work out exactly where your eyes are looking at and the pointer follows. Would be great for FPS!

Sitdown6491d ago (Edited 6491d ago )

and what do we do with people who have a lazy eye or cross-eyed. Also, in a first person shooter...I do not think it will be the best...do you really think that your eye movement would be processed quick enough when needed?....and what would be the process of looking behind you when an enemy is approaching?

mrnjl6491d ago

lol..Well lazy eyed people couldnt use it. Also if your reading the cursor would have to dissapear. Hey Im not its even possible just throwing it out there...Blinking may be an issue and also looking at photos with your wife because when a picture of her hot sister comes up the arrow will go to her breasts =(

Spydiggity6490d ago

that's what peripherals are for. every guy has that skill mastered by age 14.

The Lazy One6490d ago

What do people with no arms do if they're trying to use a mouse?

it's the same kind of problem.

M_Prime6490d ago

people with NO ARMS or upper body motion have a little dot placed on their forehead and the motion of the head is tracked via a special camera.. which the sensitivity can be tweaked on massively so it can detect small movements..

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai36d ago (Edited 36d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio36d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing36d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9236d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit36d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing36d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9236d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."