VoIP and Xbox

Xbox Live Voice Chat

Introduction to Xbox live and Voice Chat

In the early 2000s Microsoft’s Xbox video game console started moving towards online gaming. In 2006 Xbox Live was launched, and the world of gaming would never be the same. Xbox live allows gamers from around the world, to enjoy a thrilling game using online servers and game channels. an attempt at this was done by the Sega Dreamcast, but the Dreamcast was on the decline by the time they came out with their internet model. The reason why we did the Xbox Live for a voice over internet protocol blog was because of the advancing technology of Voice chat. Voice Chat is a Voice over inter internet protocol that allows gamers to communicate with each other via the Xbox live. There are many great features that make it a piece of heavily advanced equipment. The Xbox Kinect made reascent more advanced changes.

      

Voice Chat Features

One feature, which has added to the gaming experience, is voice chat on XBOX Live. Using voice over Internet protocol, gamers are able to talk to each other while playing from the comfort of their own homes. Users typically wear an XBOX headset and microphone so that they will be able to listen and talk to others while playing their game together. This allows for players to be able to communicate with one another for numerous reasons, such as ways how to beat a mission, where the other team is at so that you can beat them, or sometimes to just catch up on old times.

Kinect

Xbox live’s first camera system, Vision, was released in 2006. Later, this system was replaced with Kinect. Xbox developed Kinect in competition with the Wii console.  Kinect is an interactive sensor based gaming system that also allows video chat. Users are able to video each other through an xbox live account and a Kinect or Vision system.  Microsoft reports that there are approximately 48 million Xbox live users. Kinect video offers a feature different from other VOIP’s such as skype and facetime. Auto Zoom: tracks your movement and centers you on the screen in real time. Xbox live accounts also allow you to add apps such as Netflix, Hulu, Skype so user can decide which VoIP is the best for them.

Facetime

Facetime is a way for Iphone users to communicate with each other through a live stream video chat. This voice over protocol product was created by Apple incorporated, for supported mobile devices running iOS and Macintosh users running OS X. The video version of Facetime is supported on any iOS device with a forward-facing camera and on any Macintosh computer equipped with a Facetime Camera, formerly known as an Isight Camera. I look forward to what apple has in store for the next face time upgrade.

Steve Jobs announced Facetime in his keynote speech on June 7th 2010 and the World Wide Development Conference. Steve Jobs also announced the supporting devices for Facetime at the same event the iPhone 4 and ipod touch 4. The name Facetime was bought from Facetime Communications who changed their name to Actiance. Facetime was released on June 24th 2010 on iOS and February 24th 2011 on Mac. Codenamed Venice, FaceTime is a complex accomplishment that includes many pieces such as networking for seamless interaction. Garcia and four other engineers were specifically assigned to this project, and various other teams worked on pieces related to the technology. Apple's core audio team did the audio backend, dealing with the microphone and speaker, Garcia said. The video codec team also was involved, as was the application team, "which draws pretty buttons and things like that," he said.

Facetime is easy to use and accessible on all apple devices. Facetime helps families feel a little closer to home. When asked about Facetime a fellow student said "My grandpa was having his eighty fifth birthday party, and some of the family members were far away. The ability of face time allowed us to see them face to face. This was a very cool experience for my family because we were able to have a face to face communication with one of my cousins from florida and another of family member who was studying abroad in Italy." Facetime quickly gained popularity among users.