Xbox Entertainment Studios employee reveals a little about their interactive plans

Microsoft announced concluding week they will slowly shut down their Xbox Entertainment Studios partition, just at the moment it'south still in operation. Now a employee at XES, Shane Small, has revealed hints about what the group is doing to add interactive elements to its at present original television shows.

Small-scale is the latest guest for the Pointless podcast, a bear witness hosted by Kevin Pereira, the former host of Assail of the Show on the now defunct G4 cable network. Small'south conversation with Pereira was recorded on Friday, the day afterwards the squad learned that Microsoft was shutting downwardly XES, and Pocket-size admitted that for the most role they didn't await to exist part of the company's plans to lay off 18,000 of its workers.

Modest is nonetheless working at his job, and he told Pereira that he is a member of a smaller "skunkworks" team that's developing a series of interactive tools for the shows that were being developed at Xbox Entertainment Studios. While he didn't offer whatsoever hard details about those tools, Small hinted that they would have immune viewers to not only collaborate with the shows via a "second screen" experience merely also use the Xbox One's Kinect camera. Indeed, Small says that an example of that feature may have immune viewers to actually put their faces in the background of a scene in the show while they watched information technology via the Kinect add-on.

Microsoft is still developing a couple of their TV projects, including the planned Halo alive action TV series, so it'southward possible that some of those interactive tools Small mentions in the podcast might still be used for that evidence when it is released. However, information technology's clear that he and his team had very ambitious plans for adding more interactive elements in Microsoft'due south planned Television receiver testify lineup and it's a shame that those plans will now accept to be curtailed.

What practise you retrieve about the determination to shut down Xbox Entertainment Studios and practice yous think Microsoft should accept pulled the plug on their interactive Boob tube show plans?

Source: Pointless Podcast

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