Microsoft has released the software development kit for SmartGlass released. With the sdk, can Xbox 360 developers of games and applications that also make use of the screens of pcs, tablets and smartphones.
Who is with Microsoft a contract for the development of Xbox software, from Microsoft’s TechNet free the Xbox SmartGlass Software Development Kit download. In addition to the sdk developers the Xbox SmartGlass Studio, which the applications can be built, a SmartGlass JavaScript api integration with Windows, iOS, Android and Windows Phone and makes it possible for a number of programming.
Microsoft announced SmartGlass at the beginning of this month, during the annual gamebeurs E3. With the software can download video content from a tablet or smartphone to an Xbox 360 sent be et vice versa. With the technology media from a tablet or smartphone, or streamed to an Xbox 360 or a Xbox 360 to another device that is equipped with the SmartGlass software. So, for example, a partially viewed movie on a Windows Phone device continue be viewed on Microsoft’s console. Moreover, it can SmartGlass meta-information to show during playback of certain content; Microsoft showed at E3 how an episode of Game of Thrones on a tv show while the tablet is a map showed the world that the HBO series takes place.
SmartGlass can also games be used. Also it can be on a tablet or smartphone additional information about the game will be displayed, similar to the screen of the controller of Nintendo’s new Wii U console. SmartGlass will work not only on hardware that uses the Windows 8 and Windows Phone operating system, but also on Android and iOS devices. The advantage of SmartGlass is that players can make use of the console and the tablet or phone they already own, with the Wii U in the bag to grope for a new device.
Demonstration of SmartGlass