Life with PlayStation

Sony is soon introducing a new service to the PlayStation 3 called “Life with PlayStation” to give users real time weather and news. Using its web ready capabilities and powerful cell processor explained Kiz Hirai, the PS3 will display the globe with real time rendered weather satellite image showing cloud patterns, and it also supports geo-tagged photos and other content. The most amazing part about the given demo was the fact that all visuals were in real time. That means that the weather patterns seen at the time were exactly the same as say the Weather Channel but in 1080p! Kaz Hirai went on:

“For the primary version the application sticks to the present time but in the future we plan to build a system that can visually present stored photos and movies according to their recorded time and place, allowing users with their friends and family to enjoy the visuals in chronological order.”

The service is in many ways expected to be like Folding@Home, using the same engine but aiming to be more informative and visual. This is expected to be a free update and a nice feature to the ever growing PS3 platform. Although this in no way is a game changer, its nice to see the PS3 grow and the idea of just checking around the globe visually and seeing weather and news events is an interesting on its own.

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