Microsoft's Future of the Living Room Starring SuperTuxKart 82
New submitter Antoine.Stroll writes "Microsoft's concept of the living room's future doesn't include Master Chief apparently. In fact, it's starring several FOSS games including Red Eclipse and SuperTuxKart (video). Does FOSS just allow more possibilities for research and experimentation? SuperTuxKart had their 0.8 release last month. Go check out the website and download the game that Redmond's researchers couldn't resist. STK gets its Microsoft closeup at 48 seconds into the demonstration."
This is the full room projection tech detailed in an earlier story about the patents Microsoft filed relating to it.
I think I saw Halo? (Score:4, Insightful)
Last thing I want (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:All your IP is belong to us? (Score:5, Insightful)
More like Microsoft may see their future survival as hinging on collaboration rather than confrontation.
Lord knows they've dropped the ball, missed the bus and done everything they can to paint themselves into a corner in the past few years.
XBox was supposed to be the gateway to them providing all the information services you need in your home (like anyone really needs to live like they would in Bruce Wayne's Bat-Cave.)
Sounds rosey, but honestly the paradigm wasn't how we used information in the house, that happened over 20 years ago, it's that we take it all with us and Apple has been eating their lunch.
Re:I think I saw Halo? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes they are. And that's a huge problem if you want to look at their source code, as in Microsoft departments tend to be incredibly clannish and intra-competitive. So Microsoft Research has the following choices:
A) Spend weeks or months bickering back and forth with the gaming division for access to the Halo source code, or
B) Just grab some open source code and get on with it.