Xbox SmartGlass: Microsoft’s Multiscreen Strategy - lawsontheast

Microsoft is hoping to create an immersive experience across multiple devices where users can go through distinct, additive content on from each one platform with new software system called Xbox SmartGlass, unveiled at the E3 amusement expo.

To see SmartGlass at E3, watch this telecasting on YouTube.

At this year's show, Microsoft made its hardest push yet for content otherwise gaming connected its soothe. Stressful to entice a generic audience rather than retributive hardcore gamers, Microsoft showed that SmartGlass could work on with telly shows, movies and Web browse.

In one example a promotional video showed how gamers playing Craze NFL could craft a looseness on a tablet, and so execute the play in the football game. Once a gamer picked up a tablet, the gamey would suspensio, then resume once the settings were adjusted. In another example, a gamer playacting Anchor rin 4 could access additional information after reaching a waypoint in the game. The tab content included player statistics and a finisher view the game's plot descent through a serial publication of videos.

Microsoft also showed how a user could set off watching a movie on a tablet, break it, and then resume watching it on a television.

Marc Whitten, V.P. of Xbox Live, demonstrated how SmartGlass could be used with TV shows. While playing a cut back from HBO's "Game of Thrones," a tablet displayed a map of where the scene was taking place.

"My speech sound and tablet are keeping up with all of the natural action on the TV," he said.

Additionally to games, television shows and movies, SmartGlass worked with Network browsing. Game consoles like Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 have yearlong conspicuous Web browsers, only they've typically been disobedient to pilot with a game controller. Whitten showed how consumers could use a smartphone to control what's happening in Internet Explorer on Xbox. Atomic number 2 scrolled through a Web page and was able to pinch to zoom in. All actions on the smartphone were also completed on the Xbox-connected television.

SmartGlass will work on Windows 8 PCs and tablets, Windows phones. and another devices the likes of Apple's iPad.

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