So, I just DLed and played the demo to End War on the 360. Now, I am of the school of thought that teaches RTSes should be played on a computer. You have much more control over the, possibly, hundreds of units with a keyboard and mouse. But, Ubisoft promises something very exciting with this game… voice commands. Not just talking to your opponent, but actually controlling the game using voice commands.
I was skeptical at first, not knowing if the technology was ready for the idea, which is not new, and I’m glad to say that it is ready! Although not 100% perfect, the game accurately picks up the voice commands without problem. And when it doesn’t, your in-game assistant tells you so.
Also, there is a persistent, online war map which multiplayer games affect. Combine that with being able to accumulate experience points and upgrade your units, and you have an RTS MMO type game.
If you haven’t checked it out yet, I recommend it. This game will definitely be on my list of games to buy.
Oh…. it’s happening!! The short of it is that this next video show a robot swarm that is powered wirelessly. That means exactly what it sounds like. No batteries… no power cords… they recieve their power from a transmitter… WIRELESSLY!!! The talk of this technology is not new, but don’t we have enough sci-fi movies to teach us what’s going to happen next?!?!?!?
So Google has gone a different, albeit cool, way of unlocking your phone. Rather than the standard 4-digit pin that most systems have, Google has designed a type of symbol recognition system that will let you draw on screen by playing connect the dots.
Now, if you only use 4 dots, the system is less secure than using a pin, but past 4 dots, it has the potential (depending on a few variables that my friends and I argued about [see below for transcript]) to be much more secure. Of course, that is due the the increased amount of digits, or in this case gestures, rather than the system itself being more secure.
As everyone (EVERYONE) knows by now, tech moves at an incredibly high pace. And there seems to be a lot of techies trying things out in the world of music (DS DJ, Touch Screens).
Well, althought this one still is a bit rough around the edges, it is easily the most HOLY CRAP tech demo I’ve seen recently.
Sorry for the slow updates, recently… working on this month’s playlistÂ
Here’s a little something a friend forwarded to me. The Rolly came out last year, and I had been keeping up with it prior to launch, but when the price was announced, I quickly lost interest. It’s almost pointless, but it’s a cool display of new tech. At the very least, it’s a cool conversation piece.
So last weekend I re-did my media setup. TV… computer(s)… XBox.
Along with re-doing the setup, I also realized that the default method of sharing media from your PC to your XBox (and consequently watching it on your TV), using WMP 11, KILLS your CPU cycles even when you’re not actually using it!
So I asked some friends, and a few of them are using TVersity. It’s not specifically for the XBox, which is great, because there are A LOT of ways to share with this app.
The install took about 3 minutes (it installs a bunch of codecs to help play extra media file types), and as soon as I looked in my XBox… bam! there it was. Easy-peasy!!
Hope it helps… now excuse me while i watch movies listen to music and look at my photo album through my XBox and TV.
