{"id":659292,"date":"2013-05-21T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=647812"},"modified":"2013-05-21T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:32:00","slug":"microsoft-announces-new-xbox-one-with-live-tv-guide-media-multitasking-and-skype-group-video-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659292","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces new Xbox One with live TV guide, media multitasking and Skype group video chats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft announced its new Xbox called Xbox One at a press event in Redmond, Wash. Tuesday that puts a heavy emphasis on TV and living room entertainment with a heavy focus on live TV. Don Mattrick, President of Interactive Entertainment at Microsoft, called the new device an \u201call in one home entertainment system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new device will offer direct access to live TV, which users can start with a simple voice command. The console can switch between games, music, live TV and apps through voice commands as well as through new, universal gestures. For example, to leave a full-screen live TV experience users kind of grab with both hands in thin air and then pull these hands together.<\/p>\n

There is also a so-called snap mode will overlay an app over live TV to allow side-by-side multitasking. One of the apps taking advantage of this is Microsoft’s Skype, which will offer group video calls on the TV – something that isn\u2019t possible with any other TV-based Skype integration, according to Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business. Users can watch a movie and launch a Skype call while the movie continues.<\/p>\n

Hardware-wise, the new device didn’t offer that many surprises: The Xbox One utilizes 8 GB RAM and an x86 processor. It comes with a Blu-ray drive, and uses WiFi Direct and USB 3 as well as a completely redesigned Kinect sensor device. That’s in line with earlier leaks, which had already pointed to the two HDMI ports<\/a>, as well as Microsoft using a more PC-like architecture<\/a>, with an AMD x86-processor powering the device.<\/p>\n

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