If you watched Iron Man then at least once you have talked about how cool his lab was in his house. Remember the screens that appeared in the air as hollograms and how all of his movements manipulated them? I do too and it was fricken awesome.
Two years ago Microsoft introduced us to their new controller. You. A camera that lets you control the screen with your body? What is this insane technology? Lacking. Now that it has launched most core gamers or people over the age of 15 will say the same. And why may you ask. Well let me tell you. The technology for it isn't there. Yes it works and it's simple but it hasn't been developed far enough to be useful in any way. Many people may disagree with me and even go as far as to say that This technology will die only to sit in the closet of thousands of gamers' homes. But it won't. You know why? Hollograms. Going back to Iron Man and his computer it was a hollogram. Imagine turning on your computer and surrounding you is all of your icons floating in a circle. You say open pictures but then you notice your pictures are too small so you open up your arms wide and make them look huge. Now would it be useful then? Hell yes. Would it be the coolest thing on the planet? Yes again.
So there you have it. The key to Microsofts success is to hold off. If they can make it so it was intuitive and broke the boundries of a standard television (even with 3D technology perhaps since hollograms are still a far off dream) then they'll have something really great. Untill then I don't think Kinect will be entering my home any time soon.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
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.
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.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
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.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
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.
Kinect and 3d=WIN, closest we will see to getting hologram gaming for quite some time. The idea of using ur fingers to push what you want without a remote/move thingy is awesome. Ms need to work on individual finger movements so we could use it like an ipad so to speak or a mouse and keyboard. Right now theyre thinking full body motion but i want finger tracking which is adjustable so i can customise it to whats comfortable exc while sitting. Moving around is great (and the best way to play) sports, dancing, and workout games but not for real normal games i would like to see. Im waiting on a torchlight/diablo game where you point at the enemies and attack automatically with hotkey icons to "press" on the bottom of the screen, id get kinect for that. Its a bright future if they invest more r and d and think outside of the box.
They already have this hologram stuff in Japan. I think sony has a prototype that is touchable.