The integration of communication types, as in FaceTime or Google’s Hangouts, with the further integration of voice assistants, like Siri or Google Now, combined with multiple sensors, such as Xbox’s weird cameras or Apple’s iBeacon, means that communication can be more seamless and location independent than ever.Īnd Apple should be able to pull this off better than competitors. When the world moved from landline phones to mobile phones, we shifted our perception about communication from calling a place” no matter who might be there, to calling a person, no matter which place they might be in.
The Apple Phone Experience Should Be Seamless More to the point, Google’s poor user experience with Hangouts and Skype’s lack of appeal beyond Xbox is a huge opportunity for Apple to come in and create a super compelling whole-life communication system. The Xbox/Skype integration suggests the future of mainstream communication, which Apple would truly excel at and which is one of the main reasons for Apple to create an iTV. Skype is an increasingly unappealing communications option on phones and computers.
But it ends at the edges of the living room. You can also walk around in the room, and the shot will follow you. But if a third person sits down out of frame, the Xbox will re-frame the shot to show all three. For example, if there are two people on the couch, the Xbox will frame the Skype video so they’re perfectly framed. The Xbox can actually identify humans in the room, and in software frame the shot smoothly and elegantly.
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If you get a Skype call while watching TV, for example, you say: “Xbox, answer.” The Xbox will pause what you’re watching and connect the video call using the Xbox’s 1080p camera. Microsoft’s new Xbox One offers voice-controlled Skype integration, and it’s a thrill to use.
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