Sony Announces Worldwide Launch Of Life With PlayStation
See Full ImageOkay, so yesterday was just a premature slip, as a few PlayStation 3 owners saw the Life With PlayStation application in a Folding@Home update. But now, we have the official press release in our inbox.
Today, Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that Life With PlayStation officially arrives worldwide. As stated in the release, it's a "new visual and interactive way to use their PS3 to access news and information from around the world, only possible on the PS3's feature-rich platform." As part of this initial launch, LIVE CHANNEL will be included with the program, and the news and information will be displayed on a "place" and "time" world map interface. It's the live content that will intrigue most; there's cloud imagery (provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center), weather details straight from the Weather Channel, news headlines ripped directly from Google, and very cool live camera images (partially provided by the Earth Television Network) "of nearly 60 cities around the globe." All of this is free, folks, and while it may not sound earth-shattering, we have to admit...LIVE CHANNEL sounds like something we'd toy around with.
Care to check it out? Just click that Folding@Home icon - yes, you do need it - and this time, the update that downloads will include Life With PlayStation. This update is also for Stanford's ongoing project as well; it will allow the program to "support more advanced simulation of protein fold, and will also support PS3's unique Folding@Home ranking system." So there you have it: Life With PlayStation is ready to go, and we dare you to nab it, take a look around, and tell us it's not pretty darn sweet. :)
9/18/2008 Ben Dutka
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Alienange
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 10:56:13 AM
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Daedusian
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 10:58:45 AM
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Qubex
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 11:20:20 AM
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It would also be nice if Sony permitted some User Generated content for XMB, like XMB Extensions for example. Also the addition of Skype etc. It just seems Sony does not want to open up the system enough to get the bedroom coder involved.
What about Scene Demo productions like they had for Amiga and Commodore 64 computers... so much could be done.
With Google supplying the news feeds for Life, Sony should have simply developed a derivative of Google Earth which includes all the community layers and information such as the ability to search for information and display relevant information within the 3D environment, such as the localisation and source of the information...
The Earth texture for me is a little low res though, again, the texturing could have been better, similarly to the poor textures used for the Earth visualiser...
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LegioN
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 11:22:25 AM
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 11:22:32 AM
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Qubex
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 11:28:23 AM
In my view Sony are not moving quickly enough in making the PS3 the machine to go to for all media and browsing. It is a 64bit computer, it can do anything you want it too, Sony just need to open her up a little...
Q!
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LightShow
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 9:39:41 PM
Two things Sony can do to blow away the competition:
1. Let the PS3 loose and provide some apps that really take advantage of all the power they put in it. If they're gonna make us pay for all that power, give us something that'll use it.
2. Let the hackers loose on the PSP. Legitimize all the awesome stuff indies are bringing to the platform, or make your own versions, but theres a lot of potential in the PSP that sony has under wraps because of money concerns. I dont even play PSP games anymore; most of it is GBA games on an EMU.
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ThePoetRazel
Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 9:48:10 PM
To me, it's 1 step closer to perfection. Glass half full.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 @ 12:28:09 PM
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Tim Speed24
Friday, September 19, 2008 @ 9:19:11 AM
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Somehow the world seems empty.....
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kj313
Sunday, September 21, 2008 @ 9:23:16 AM
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I couldn't agree wit u guys more. That skype feature u mention sounds real nice! Sony let me down tremendously with the In-game xmb update. Ever since then my expectaions from Sony will always be low. So this way when they hype up something(in-game music) when they fail or limit it an app baffles me.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 @ 5:24:31 PM
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