Just a side note. I finally boughht a computer ( hp pavillion with switchable graphics) to find out that I lost the wireless mouse I saved while moving from France.
In a search for cheap altrrnative (till I jump by whatever mall) I research what Android had to offer wrt to windows remote control. I'm not affiliate with tem but I found Unified Remote and I'm more than pleased with the service it provides me with.
Actually it's an understatment, I love it. Basically it turns my phone into a kb + track pad. It's incredibly convenient. I can sit (if not lay) on the couch while surfing or posting (short posts as it's not a productivity solution).
Definitely the idea of Smart Glass is nothing new but done properly I can definitely see it having success.
Imho that kind of solutions are going nowhere, they are meant to stay.
I pushed a bit further and went to play Diablo3 with it. It's troubling at first but I definitely got used to it though I would avoid any serious difficulty levels.
POint is that app is not intended to pilot such a game. Another point is that it made me a believer that actually that could prove the best way to pilot "comfortably" quiet some games (I mean without KB+M).
Basically you need the app to support some skinning. In case of diablo for exemple You would want to sacrifice (say on a smart phone) a 1/3 of the screen for the actions buttons + potion.
My belief is that it would fare pretty well, better than what a pad can achieve.
On top of it it comes with bonus: Kb, user configurable, etc.
So I definitely hope that MS allows and atually encourage some devs to design (or port) some games which would rely primarily on that kind of input. Definitely there are things that I believe neither a pad or kinect will be proper subsitutes for, KB+M. Touch screen are way better match.
Wrt to Nintendo, the experience with this apps kind of reinforce my belief that they should have gone tablet only (+triggers) for the Yuu mote (I trademark this term it makes so much more seense than Wii U, after the Wii the Yuu would have sounded natural) and multi touch. That would have given devs a clear orientation, they should not have passed on multi touch.
When the screen is use as a substitute for the tv and that the game actually use other controllers (wiimote or core pad) (which is set to happen) simply a stand ala Surface would have done the trick.
End of my rant
for those that can try this app is a god sent for laptop/htpc users, imho.
In a search for cheap altrrnative (till I jump by whatever mall) I research what Android had to offer wrt to windows remote control. I'm not affiliate with tem but I found Unified Remote and I'm more than pleased with the service it provides me with.
Actually it's an understatment, I love it. Basically it turns my phone into a kb + track pad. It's incredibly convenient. I can sit (if not lay) on the couch while surfing or posting (short posts as it's not a productivity solution).
Definitely the idea of Smart Glass is nothing new but done properly I can definitely see it having success.
Imho that kind of solutions are going nowhere, they are meant to stay.
I pushed a bit further and went to play Diablo3 with it. It's troubling at first but I definitely got used to it though I would avoid any serious difficulty levels.
POint is that app is not intended to pilot such a game. Another point is that it made me a believer that actually that could prove the best way to pilot "comfortably" quiet some games (I mean without KB+M).
Basically you need the app to support some skinning. In case of diablo for exemple You would want to sacrifice (say on a smart phone) a 1/3 of the screen for the actions buttons + potion.
My belief is that it would fare pretty well, better than what a pad can achieve.
On top of it it comes with bonus: Kb, user configurable, etc.
So I definitely hope that MS allows and atually encourage some devs to design (or port) some games which would rely primarily on that kind of input. Definitely there are things that I believe neither a pad or kinect will be proper subsitutes for, KB+M. Touch screen are way better match.
Wrt to Nintendo, the experience with this apps kind of reinforce my belief that they should have gone tablet only (+triggers) for the Yuu mote (I trademark this term it makes so much more seense than Wii U, after the Wii the Yuu would have sounded natural) and multi touch. That would have given devs a clear orientation, they should not have passed on multi touch.
When the screen is use as a substitute for the tv and that the game actually use other controllers (wiimote or core pad) (which is set to happen) simply a stand ala Surface would have done the trick.
End of my rant
for those that can try this app is a god sent for laptop/htpc users, imho.
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