Thursday, May 19, 2011

what elce can a xbox do?

Xbox just for gaming?
Not just for gaming, hear are some ways to use the xbox for none gaming


1) Streaming, with a network connection set up through a PC in your main folder settings or in the zune share you can stream photos (a folder with slides), video (movies), and audio (music), to your xbox (on a TV) from your network shared PC. This can be a clever way to show a presentation at school or a office from any network shared computer to put that media on a TV (larger screen)

2) Kinect chat, with the high end web cam that also uses inferred to see in 3D, can turn your TV into a Large web cam for conference calls, and other kinds of presentations, there is also a avatar chat that takes voice and face recondition and can combine it into your avatar in a clever round table chat with multiple friends, kinect can also be a clever way to show off that stuff in 1). Microsoft has also bought out SKYPE and well bring the survice to kinect, making it so you can skype chat on your TV to any one elce with a skype account on their Xbox OR desktop/laptop/tablet/phone



3) Media canter, on xbox can bring you all your internet TV, and radio to your xbox and combine it with a xbox remote for a sleek new kind of media experience, this can also turn the xbox into a DVR if you are tech savy enough to mess with your cable, PC, and xbox to work them together.

4) Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, last FM, Netflix, HuLu +, Zune (Movies, Music, TV Shows, all things the xbox has to offer and use for none game media options

5) There is of cource lots of other gaming things to be heard of but for doing things out side of just being a gaming device these are some well made adds