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by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 11:04am PDT |
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At least, that's what I'm getting out of the article on the frontpage, and since none of you read it here's a link for you lazy fucks.
Anyway. Maybe it's just the boys on Gizmodo and their desperation for a paycheck, but what they seem to be pushing is a gaming experience where the focus is on seamless input and multipurpose hardware because that's what a developer should be delivering according to Microsoft - not something capable of flawless communication, high performance, compatibility with a massive proportion of games, or anything else. Microsoft and possibly the industry's formula for success is that if your device doesn't work as an entertainment center, toast bread, and powerwash orfices with the minimum possible difficulty (according to their thinking, not reality) interfacing with your wishes moment to moment, it's going to fail in the marketplace.
I guess about a million years ago Brad Wardell, founder & CEO at Stardock, said that game designers shouldn't focus on 'hardcore' products because the number of next-gen video cards sold each year was available if you signed an NDA or two (and ran a company), but that's PC games and he wasn't talking about reaching out to casuals, Stardock had just released Sins of a Solar Empire and outsold goddamn everyone 'cause it ran on an abacus with max graphics enabled so they'd managed to carry the middle-ground crowd. So now Microsoft and other designers are making strides at opening up the field for new markets with people in them who are allergic to controllers, because it's all about helping out the elderly. So according to the industry narrative and here's the missing link between your wiimote and kinect:
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Is Microsoft still watching Star Trek? Do they think XBONE+KINECT=Holodeck? by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 11:04am PDT 
Not sure that had a point. by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 11:06am PDT
Re: Is Microsoft still watching Star Trek? Do they think XBONE+KINECT=Holodeck? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/18/2013, 6:23pm PDT
Goddammit, Paul. The point was the direction of the industry, not the interface. NT by fucking newbie 06/18/2013, 7:49pm PDT
Too many buttons? by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/18/2013, 6:47pm PDT
Well, MS believes in the Holodeck idea anyway by skip 05/03/2015, 12:35pm PDT
Ubiquitous holographic clutter by This fridge is a smart model 05/03/2015, 1:37pm PDT
Because it's not like we don't have enough digital hoarding by skip 05/03/2015, 2:17pm PDT
The Friendly Clingy Botnet by Mysterio's VR Projector 05/03/2015, 3:00pm PDT
Re: The Friendly Clingy Botnet by skip 05/03/2015, 3:35pm PDT
I'm sorry, but why is everyone ignoring the giant porn elephant in this room. NT by Fullofkittens 05/03/2015, 6:58pm PDT
Tell me more about the holosmut user experience NT by I naively didn't consider it 05/03/2015, 8:11pm PDT
I know a guy whose smarthouse already does this sanely and without ugly shades by serial malcontent 05/04/2015, 12:48am PDT
The actual problem with VR and AR by Entropy Stew 05/04/2015, 6:34am PDT
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