{"id":46114,"date":"2012-03-20T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46114"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:34:56","slug":"microsoft-working-on-gaming-helmet-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/46114-microsoft-working-on-gaming-helmet-glasses.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft working on gaming helmet, glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaming helmets and glasses are on the cards for <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>, according to patent applications recently published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.<\/p>\n<p>The devices are meant for use with Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and Windows Phone platforms reported news site PatentBolt.<\/p>\n<p>The first device is an \u201caviation-type\u201d helmet aimed at Xbox gamers, while the second looks like a pair of large sunglasses and can be used with <a title=\"Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360852-Windows\">Windows<\/a> Phone smartphones as well as future devices.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft claims a compact display system can be integrated into the two devices, allowing the wearer to view media from a computer or other electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Since the human eye can only focus on images more than a few centimetres away, the device will virtually project images that can be viewed by the wearer.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/03\/19\/microsoft-patent-suggest-eyewear-integration-for-xbox-windows-phone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working on gaming headgear according to patents filled by the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[123,807,2682],"class_list":["post-46114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-windows","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46116,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46114\/revisions\/46116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}