E3 2012: Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass Technology

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2. With Kinect 2 and now this, the next Xbox is going to be MIND BLOWING.

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3. I’m looking forward to seeing how this works in practice. The companion app for the phone is decent but getting connected takes too long to be useful — I can pretty much do a web search and find the information I’m looking for in the time it takes for the app to connect. It also doesn’t hold the connection well on the phone …. I may get connected, look something up, flip to another app, then when I flip back, it needs to reconnect. I’m really hoping this SmartGlass thing holds its connection more smartly and / or connects more swiftly.

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   Additional thought: I wonder if/how the Win8 SmartGlass app will handle Contracts. If one could share a web page or video to an Xbox through the SmartGlass app … That would be pretty keen.

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4. that’s the thing that worries me the most–that it’s a companion app and not just built into windows 8/windows phone. like we said on the podcast: it needs as few speedbumps as possible to work and not frustrate users.

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5. I would love this for games such as Skyrim so I could look at the map on my iPhone (or iPad, if I had one) instead of having to go look at the map in the game.

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6. you could go around that by having a hi-res image of the Skyrim map that you would save on the iPad and use that.

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7. Hm, this seems cool with media, but with games it could be rather unwieldy. It seems like it’d be a pain to move between the controller and SmartGlass device. It could be really cool, but I think it’s dependent on how much actual interaction with the SmartGlass device devs build into their games. If it’s just surfacing info, then it’ll be fine. If you’re having to switch between a controller and hitting buttons and things on, say, an iPad, it’ll be kind of annoying, I think.

   Though, managing inventories and things could be pretty awesome on it.

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8. With Kinect 2 and now this, the next Xbox is going to be MIND BLOWING.

   THINK OF THE POSSIBILITIES!

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9. Seems like an attempt to get some brand recognition before the next console. An interesting idea but hardly anyone in the mainstream knows what an Xbox is.

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10. Seems like an attempt to get some brand recognition before the next console. An interesting idea but hardly anyone in the mainstream knows what an Xbox is.

    What does that even mean!

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11. Seems like an attempt to get some brand recognition before the next console. An interesting idea but hardly anyone in the mainstream knows what an Xbox is.

    If you seriously think that people in the mainstream don’t know what an Xbox is then your crazy. Games aren’t some niche thing. I can bet you that if you go to a random city/town and ask people passing you in the street then at least 90% of people will know what it is. They are not going to give you the full rundown of the hardware but they do know that you play games on it. And Xbox 360 is more popular then PS3. The 360 has sold 67.2million units world wide and the PS3 63.9million units. And since Sony only specify sold to retail and Microsoft specify sold to costumers the gap is a bit bigger them 3.3million when it comes to units in the wild. And Microsofts console has topped the sales charts for over a year now beating PS3 and even the Wii.

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12. I like that it’ll be available on all smart phones/tablets but you can bet your life that Microsoft will keep the best features for windows devices.

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