Sony Brings Life with PlayStation
Sony
Computer Entertainment (SCE) will release Life with PlayStation for
PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) today, Sept. 18, worldwide simultaneously. Life with
PlayStation is a new lifestyle service that offers users a visual and
interactive way to use their PS3 to access news and information from
around the world. As the initial content, LIVE CHANNEL will be released
for Life with PlayStation. Through network connected PS3, it delivers
information centering on two themes, "place" and "time" on a world map
interface.
Some of
the live content includes; cloud imagery (provided by University of
Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center), along with
weather information (provided by The Weather Channel), news headlines
(provided by Google News), and live camera images (partially provided by
The Earth Television Network) of nearly 60 cities around the globe.
Through
LIVE CHANNEL, PS3 users will be able to enjoy worldwide news and live
information free of charge. In addition to LIVE CHANNEL, Life with
PlayStation will continually deliver a wide variety of interactive content
and channels to living rooms through network connected PS3s to further
enhance the world of entertainment made possible by PS3.
PS3 users
can join Life with PlayStation by clicking the Folding@home icon on the
network column of XMB (XrossMediaBar) that will update to Life with
PlayStation.
Folding@home is a distributed computing project run by Stanford
University. It aims to understand protein folding and misfolding, and how
these are related to diseases and many forms of cancer.
PS3 provides approximately 74%
(as of February 2008) of the computing power in Folding@home and over 1
million PS3 users have participated in this project.
With the
latest update, Folding@home will support more advanced simulation of
protein fold, and will also support PS3's Folding@home ranking system,
which enables users to see where they stand among the worldwide
contributors based on their level of contribution.
SCE will
promote the expansion of the world of PS3 by introducing new services that
will open up new possibilities and enjoyment in interactive entertainment,
says the company.
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