Kinect and Internet Explorer Come Together on Xbox

[Andy Chalk]

Kinect and Internet Explorer Come Together on Xbox

Microsoft is reportedly working on a Kinect-driven version of Internet Explorer for the Xbox 360.

Xbox 360 owners may soon find their consoles equipped with a fully-featured web browser. The 360 currently offers media searches via Bing, but according to The Verge [http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/10/3012013/internet-explorer-browser-xbox-360-kinect], Microsoft is now playing around with a version of Internet Explorer 9 for the console that will bring the web in its entirety to couches and big screen televisions.

Even cooler, the report says that Kinect gesture and voice control will be "heavily integrated" into the browser. Kinect won't be mandatory, but the 360 version of IE9 will be "heavily tuned for Kinect usage," and if you're not right at this very instant dreaming about telling your Xbox to "enhance 34 to 36 - pan right and pull back," then I'm afraid we just don't have anything else to talk about.

Microsoft hasn't said anything about when this fully armed and operational web browser will actually be available to 360 owners, but with E3 [http://www.e3expo.com/] happening in June, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect to hear something official in the relatively near future. Now if only someone can make it work with Google, we'll be all set.


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[viranimus]

Yes I fully agree.. its about damned time MS allowed for an internet browser.

And yes, how does one go about uninstalling IEX and replacing it with firefox, opera, safari, basically anything other than IEX or Chrome.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Ya hear that?

That's the sound of no one giving a single fuck

My laptop is literally 6 feet from my Xbox.

 

[Qitz]

So they took two of the worst performing pieces of shit and spliced them together?

Whatever works.

 

[WonderWillard]

Fuck, does this mean I'll actually end up using Internet Explorer? They said this day would never come. Oh well, maybe I can watch porn on my big screen TV now. That's all I ever used IE for anyway.

 

[loa]

Why...
why would I want motion controls in a browser?
Name one thing this'll enhance over mouse + keyboard. Just one.

 

[Lost In The Void]

Oh good, now I can have the 'amazing experience' of using IE on my Xbox.

 

[Sis]

Kinect, the most useless peripheral ever created and the most broken internet browser. Oh, funsies.

 

[LGC Pominator]

Well this is kinda awesome... I wonder if this means I will be able to play realm of the mad god on my 360...

Oh and the responses by the haters are just hilarious

 

[Simonoly]

Simply life changing. Will there be specific gestures for certain functions? Maybe if I pull my pants down and fart at the screen all my browsing history will be cleared.

 

[Fayathon]

I can pay $150 for a an addon for my Xbox that lets me use the world's second worst web browser, next to Netscape?

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Because raising your hand like a kid in elementary school to select things and awkwardly talking to your television is so much more convenient then just typing stuff in with a keyboard.

 

[gigastar]

Ya hear that?

That's sound of no one giving a single fuck

My laptop is literally 6 feet from my Xbox.

Yep, yesterday i was browsing the forums here while waiting to be summoned for some jolly co-operation in Dark Souls.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Ya hear that?

That's sound of no one giving a single fuck

My laptop is literally 6 feet from my Xbox.

Yep, yesterday i was browsing the forums here while waiting to be summoned for some jolly co-operation in Dark Souls.

As I type this, I'm playing Blackjack in the casinos of Fallout New Vegas

 

[Worgen]

I cant wait to see what kind of viruses that IE9 will let onto 360s.

 

[gigastar]

Ya hear that?

That's sound of no one giving a single fuck

My laptop is literally 6 feet from my Xbox.

Yep, yesterday i was browsing the forums here while waiting to be summoned for some jolly co-operation in Dark Souls.

As I type this, I'm playing Blackjack in the casinos of Fallout New Vegas

Unfortunately as i type this im watching TV having to listen out for my dads car alarm going off so i can turn it off, at the moment it goes off about every 10 mins due to a fresh hole in its glass roof it got today. Oh also, my dads a bricklayer, guess how it got the hole in its roof.

 

[Big.Bad.Blowback]

"Xbox - Open Internet Explorer - Go to: Google.com - Search: Pornography"

The true reason we need a hands free experience. I hope it does not track all motions.

 

[Silver Patriot]

Why...
why would I want motion controls in a browser?
Name one thing this'll enhance over mouse + keyboard. Just one.

Even cooler, the report says that Kinect gesture and voice control will be "heavily integrated" into the browser. Kinect won't be mandatory, but the 360 version of IE9 will be "heavily tuned for Kinect usage," and if you're not right at this very instant dreaming about telling your Xbox to "enhance 34 to 36 - pan right and pull back," then I'm afraid we just don't have anything else to talk about.

I can't justify it, but I can say mouse and keyboard will never be as cool as working voice to text command. I am not saying it will be able to do this, which is the problem.

 

[Andy Chalk]

I predict a lot of problems with unintentional "scroll-up-scroll-down-scroll-up-scroll-down" commands.