{"id":192,"date":"2005-05-25T11:07:57","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=192"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T00:03:25","slug":"inside-the-xbox-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Inside the XBox 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/articles\/paedia\/cpu\/xbox360-1.ars?42715\">Ars Technica<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thus Part I of this series will be devoted to exploring the types of applications for which the Xbox 360 <em>was designed<\/em>, with a particular emphasis on 3D gaming and the <strong>real-time procedural synthesis of in-game geometry<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another piece of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?p=50\">puzzle<\/a> seems to drop into place. I&#8217;ve only scanned the article, but this next part caught my eye since I was just wondering about this last night (while standing naked in <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">SL<\/a> and wondering when I&#8217;d have time to skin my av):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This patent (patent number 20050099417) that Microsoft was recently granted covers a method for using procedural synthesis to do real-time skinning of 3D characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny thought just entered my mind. Microsoft also has the patent for using skin to act as a &#8220;network&#8221; between computing devices. Imagine that you could marry the virtual reality skin with real skin in a kind of bio-synthetic\/augmented reality hybrid. Have to give that some thought when I go back and read it more closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ars Technica: Thus Part I of this series will be devoted to exploring the types of applications for which the Xbox 360 was designed, with a particular emphasis on 3D gaming and the real-time procedural synthesis of in-game geometry. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=192\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}