Gadgetory

it's only my third day at e3 and I've almost completely lost my voice but I have some extra cough drops my tea with honey and i'm gonna go have some fun damn it something about III this year felt like the end of an era all that glitz and glam and big-time graphics and costumes and flashing lights it was all there but it felt like underneath that might be a slightly rotten core software game sales down forty two percent over last year console sales are down with no hope on the horizon other than the confusing and weirdly boring wii u i decided to take a look at the future of gaming starting with the biggest disrupter of all the phone in your pocket yeah and hardcore gamers we don't like to admit that we play games on touchscreens but we're all doing it we all have smartphones and we might not think of it as gaming but when we sat on the bus we're playing games speaking of the phone in your pocket here's Microsoft again promising to integrate the xbox with phones tablets and TVs using a concept called smart glass Microsoft has promised this kind of thing before although this time they're actually kind of far along this is going to update because it knows what I'm doing on the on the console and say oh how you're gonna watch the North remembers now if i tap that now i start getting into the experience so i have controls here over here i could pause i could fast forward if i tap this interactive map i get this map of Westeros as location change in the episode I may not know where I'm at this is actually going to update dynamically as the show progresses and this principle of Xbox SmartGlass knowing what's going on on the TV and pushing the information to you so you don't have to do the work it's really part of the value for a consumer okay I love me some game of thrones but don't worry SmartGlass also works with games here's a concept using Xbox SmartGlass in Halo 4 you could use this second screen to get more game information even accept multiplayer requests see now halo is my game so I am fired up about halo 4 thing is though every time I see like a big long trailer frail oh you know what I really want to see a halo movie get on eggs back to those $60 disks those got to go to enter cloud gaming all your games anywhere maybe even without a console you know look we wanted so that your next generation you know in the next the next TV you buy the next tablet you buy you're basically are able to to take that a gaming experience wherever you happen to be and we want to make it as convenient as possible now we've got close to 300 games on like you said tablets and smartphones PCs and Macs and our own TV device to online game system but also really excited to also be announcing a relationship with LG to integrate the online service into next generation LG Google TVs the skeptics will say well you know what about the latency what about the lag try it clouded mobile or one thing but I'm ready for augmented and even virtual reality Sony almost thrilled me with an augmented reality book that turned out to require a real one although we are getting closer who knows what's going to come next is it going to be glasses we're gonna be home it is it going to be interactive windows on the street I can imagine the same with game consoles who knows how it's going to evolve I think that technology is moving so fast people are so creative with it it's really going to be excited I was kind of surprised to find that while I'm ready for a gaming implant some pro gamers are not in a hurry for that future of gaming we have the kinect now the kinect is awesome i love it i love the wii as well but when it comes to you know competitive gaming when it comes to shooting games I don't want to go around and go and do virtual reality if I want that would go do in real life as well as like playing basketball I'm gonna go outside and maybe get a tan and said you don't want to get to that point where you're wearing the goggles and you're totally immersed I don't want to have like a jacket that I can feel like the bullets hitting me and it hurts reloading I sit on my butt and flavor do you can't miss him so maybe T squared isn't quite ready yet but my feeling at e3 this year was that this industry needs a revolution and it cannot be just more amazingly realistic headshots and blood spray well maybe it could be that for a few more years but after that it's time to actually get creative I will be waiting