The streaming to the pad is excellent. I’m getting stable signal around 50m away. That includes a direct line of sight(ish) from room to garden, and in most places of my home.
The device appears to be delivering content as a stream (like onlive or whatever on a local basis) by the way the interference appears more frame by frame tearing, rather than a breakdown of a logic stream or a crash out of synced bidirectional flow.
The xmit back is likely only sensor and input data from the player. I have no ideas yet on the transmission stream technologies.
The latency is acceptably low for dual sound – the pad is often streamed different music than the regular speakers.
The social aspects of mii universe are the biggest day one thing for me… We have forums for games and can leave messages as text or drawn bitmap. We can “yeah!” a post (like, bump, approve of / pick a vernacular).
We can make friends from people we recently played with, and can video chat call them right from the tablet controller, which has dual webcam, and an acceptable mic.
The single layer blue ray discs are rounded at the edges. This is likely to reduce the chance of material layers of the disc separating with repeated spinning use and age.
The system does feel decidedly Nintendo, it’s color scheme, icons, music, “feel” of the whole experience would make the foundations of a nice kiosk style OS.
So this tablet thing huh. Touch really is that good, and win 8 does it best.
So ill let Justin play with this new toy while I patiently wait on my “real” win 8 tablet – a maxed Sony Vaio Duo 11. For me a real windows os tablet that can be a laptop too, and packs enough processing punch that I can multi boot to crapnix for security tools, or server 2012 for a sharepoint / lync 2013 collaboration beacon.
Add in the presence of visual studio 2012 and a digital stylus for my photoshoppage and you’ve suddenly presented me with the ability to talk to machines and cast spells. The form factor is absolutely perfect for my body / hand size.
I’m somewhat lusty for this thing and am a self confessed fan of Japanese electronics device design.
They market these things over here to people who don’t need them. “an executive laptop” my behind. It’s got 8GB ram, an i7 that’ll burst up to 3GHz and sits at 1.9 on all solid state. It’s hd 4000 graphics are terrible by hard core gaming… But it’ll spin 60fps in eve online at 1366x7somethingorother, plays magic online just fine and can even handle guild wars 2 or Borderlands 2. Yes it will run wow, wow runs on a toaster (a triumph imo)
Now, please Microsoft, put out an sdk for those next xbox glasses and gimme some – for great justice and for what must be ^_^
The name should simply be xbox. Like a fucking imac. burn in the brand recognition. (forgive my break into cuss).
For some of us, we require eye-front tech and it’s successors. We require it to transform humans again, and to accelerate human tech integration.
Just like you are doing with touch and other nui research (laptop based gesturing by ultrasound looks promising). Why no laptop / integrated webcam version of Kinect?
It seems that even if you had more quickly reactive for point / touch tech than Kinect it’d have a harder time considering a large 3d space (like a room).
Dogs (border collies) are smart enough to play with projections on a wall.
There is so much to do.
Work hard, hire folk that give a damn. I mean really give a damn.
Dissemination Machine 