Here's what a game will look like on Apple Watch

We're seeing some screens of Apple Watch apps start to surface. NimbleBit's word game LetterPad is a puzzle type game where players have to create words related to a given clue. We've also learned that many games like the one above will run from connected iPhones and simply be projected to the Apple Watch, which should conserve the wearable's battery life. Smart watches haven't really bene seen as casual gaming devices but Apple Watch and WatchKit could change this. Let's see what happens.

Source: Mac Rumors

Xbox One and Windows 10 integration extends functionality of consoles to PCs

One of the cooler announcements in today's Windows 10 launch event was the news that Windows 10 will have an Xbox App available on Windows 10 devices. What this enables is streaming Xbox One games to WIndows 10 PCs and tablets. They demoed this on stage with Forza Horizon running on an Xbox One but streaming without any latency to a Surface Pro 3 tablet. Using an XBox controller, you can play your game using a PC with no latency and with remote access to all your Xbox controls. This is made possible by DirectX 12 enhancing graphics performance on existing hardware devices.

Microsoft sees a future in Holograms with HoloLens

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

Microsoft's big next-gen technology play will be holograms, or at least the company's 'version' of this immersive virtual reality experience.

Just as rival Google has placed its Google Glass project in the hands of a new team, Microsoft revealed it has been working on its own augmented reality headset and glasses called HoloLens.

Click to read more ...

Microsoft's new browser for Windows 10 is called Project Spartan

Image from The Verge

Microsoft has been working on a next generaton web browser to come with Windows 10 and it is called Project Spartan. The first major browser move after Internet Explorer, Project Spartan boasts a new rendering engine for faster and more accurate webpages, an annotating feature that allows users to use a pen or their fingers to markup text or images on touch devices and a new reading mode that sheds images and formatting to give users a better reading experience and Cortana is also woven into Project Spartan which means users should be able to easily access the personal assistant for searches.

Project Spartan is still a ways off and won't be included in the next build of the Windows 10 preview it is coming to both desktop and mobile in the future.

Source: Microsoft