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8th December 2009

New Class of Xbox 360 Accessories To Improve Upon Xbox 360 Gaming

You probably already know it, Xbox 360 Games offer some of the most wonderfully immersive experiences anywhere, online or off.  With hit titles like Halo, Fallout, Call of Duty, and Panzer General : Allied Assault, it’s hard to see what else could probably improve gameplay any more than the long way it is come.  In fact , it wasn’t but a couple of years back that clunky outdated controllers were still being used.  These days the user interface has improved noticeably, with on-board accelerometers to process spatial information for human kinetics in gaming.But something up coming may be the most revolutionary thing to hit videogaming at home in our time. 

Xbox 360 games can be closely matched to Xbox 360 Accessories for the most continued experience of actually immersive gameplay.  But what if there were no requirement for any Xbox 360 accessories save one?One uber accessory to replace them all?  Long the raw material of science-fiction and comic books, this latest of Xbox 360 Accessories would also be the last.  It’d be the only thing wanted to play all of the Xbox 360 games made of then on. 

Not heard of it?  That’s because it was only in the near past announced by Microsoft.  It is a electronic eye of sorts which will obliterate the requirement for physical controllers, hardware that is held in one’s hand.  This new soon-to-come electronic eye will sense player movements in space, so handheld controllers with built in accelerometers will no longer be necessary.  This latest advance in gaming technology is scheduled to be released within the following year or two, and should be mounted separately from the console.  But all user movement information will be provided to the console just the same.  Try to imagine playing computer games with nothing less than your own body and body movements! 

This undoubted magic eye that Microsoft has been developing will even track eye movements to switch point of view in a first-person shooter.  Imagine Halo or Call of Duty or gong of honor without pesky controllers but with instead a light gun and your own body and your own eyes!  As you turn right the screenshot reveals views to your right side, and as you turn left the panorama shifts with you! 
So while today’s Xbox 360 games are quite complicated, the Xbox accessories to come will need software that rethinks the entire idea of onscreen and off.  Hardware and software exist in a symbiotic relationship, and it will be engaging to see what transpires next now that the hardware has taken a quantum jump forward!

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