Microsoft increases the power of Xbox One while a patent for AR glasses appears

Microsoft continues to prepare Xbox One for its November release. This week it has reached the beta phase of its development, from which time the console will be tested among the company's employees. Major Nelson has taken advantage of this occasion to interview Marc Whitten, product manager for Xbox One, on his podcast, who has commented on some details of the project, including an improvement in the specifications of the new console.

The improvements have to do with its graphics capabilities, Increased the speed of the Xbox One GPU from the initially announced 800MHz to the 853MHz.The movement seems to be a response to the specifications of Sony's Playstation 4, which on paper would have almost 40% more graphics power. With the increase, Microsoft would try to reduce that difference a bit, which already is likely to be difficult to appreciate when we are playing a game.

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To the extent that this difference is appreciable, it will be, to a large extent, the responsibility of the developers. They would have already received the final version of the console development kits, which also includes improvements to the graphics driver. Microsoft claims to have developed a single driver in-house, based on DirectX but 100 percent optimized for Xbox One"

The console's specifications aren't the only thing we've been able to read about over the past few days. Just yesterday a Microsoft patent on what appears to be augmented reality glasses appeared on the webThe patent, which was filed in 2012 and was made public this week, describes a multiplayer system with a visor embedded in a pair of sensor glasses to locate users, record gestures and recognize the environment where we are playing.

Already before the official presentation of Xbox One, rumors and leaks appeared that included augmented reality glasses capable of complementing Kinect and providing a more immersive gaming experience. However, the existence of the patent does not imply that we are going to have a product like this next to our consoles in the near future, although it does hint at the interest of the of Redmond in this type of technology.

Via | extralife | Engadget