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Also: Microsoft already closed MSN TV and various Microsoft Game Studios (Aces Studio, Carbonated Games, Digital Anvil, Ensemble Studios, FASA Studio, Hired Gu

by frik 12y ago

Also: Microsoft already closed MSN TV and various Microsoft Game Studios (Aces Studio, Carbonated Games, Digital Anvil, Ensemble Studios, FASA Studio, Hired Gun). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_TV , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Microsoft_Studios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Microsoft_Studios ) At this year's E3 game industry trade show, the Kinect2 sensor was not even mentioned. So some newspapers speculated that the Kinect2 is dead. (e.g. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/E3-Microsoft-begraebt-Kinect-und-legt-Halo-neu-auf-2218054.html http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/E3-Microsoft-begraebt... (German))

roc 12y ago
Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend. But Kinect, as technology, has huge potential in the robotics and connected home spaces. Also, if they can cram it into Windows Phone, they could easily out-pace Google's Tango to consumer-facing apps and products that really differentiate their mobile devices. If they're serious about 3d printing support, it would be incredibly powerful to have a device that can create a source model just from waving your phone around a thing to be replicated.
- coldpie 12y ago
  > Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend. Waggle is a really bad way to input button presses, which is all it was ever used for. It won't be missed.
leoc 12y ago
It's interesting that MS is apparently giving up on its ambitions in publishing (the publishing of things other than its first-party application and OS software and so on, of course). Those ambitions go back to before the Web went mainstream, when MS had dominated the PC and was looking for new worlds to conquer. Encarta, first released in '93, was shut down recently too.
- nick_riviera 12y ago
  Side note and possibly off topic. I have the 2001 Encarta dictionary, print edition! Wonderful book. Shame to see them shutting the project down. I wish they would release everything into the public domain.

by frik 12y ago

roc 12y ago

Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend. But Kinect, as technology, has huge potential in the robotics and connected home spaces. Also, if they can cram it into Windows Phone, they could easily out-pace Google's Tango to consumer-facing apps and products that really differentiate their mobile devices. If they're serious about 3d printing support, it would be incredibly powerful to have a device that can create a source model just from waving your phone around a thing to be replicated.

coldpie 12y ago
> Waggle for gaming certainly seems "done" as a trend. Waggle is a really bad way to input button presses, which is all it was ever used for. It won't be missed.

leoc 12y ago

It's interesting that MS is apparently giving up on its ambitions in publishing (the publishing of things other than its first-party application and OS software and so on, of course). Those ambitions go back to before the Web went mainstream, when MS had dominated the PC and was looking for new worlds to conquer. Encarta, first released in '93, was shut down recently too.

nick_riviera 12y ago
Side note and possibly off topic. I have the 2001 Encarta dictionary, print edition! Wonderful book. Shame to see them shutting the project down. I wish they would release everything into the public domain.