Life With PlayStation on Sony PS3 Today
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: September 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
Sony have been bringing us more and more for free on the Playstation Network, and while many of us cannot wait for Home, today we will all get something extra for now.
That’s right, the much-awaited “Life With PlayStation” service launches today on the Sony PS3 and it will do so worldwide simultaneously. This new service will give you a new interactive and visual way to use your Playstation 3. You will be able to access information and news from around the world thanks to the PS3’s feature-rich platform. Read the press release for full details below.
TOKYO, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) today announced that it would release Life with PlayStation(R) for PLAYSTATION(R)3 (PS3(R)) today, September 18, 2008, worldwide simultaneously. Life with PlayStation is a new lifestyle service that offers users a new visual and interactive way to use their PS3 to access news and information from around the world, only possible on the PS3’s feature-rich platform.
As the initial content, LIVE CHANNEL will be released for Life with PlayStation. Through network connected PS3, it delivers worldwide news and 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(TM)), 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 easily join Life with PlayStation by simply clicking the Folding@home*1 icon on the network column of XMB(TM) (XrossMediaBar) that will update to Life with PlayStation.
With the latest update, Folding@home will support more advanced simulation of protein fold, and will also support PS3’s unique Folding@home ranking system, which enables users to see where they stand among the worldwide contributors based on their level of contribution. SCE will vigorously promote the expansion of the world of PS3 by introducing new services that will open up new possibilities and enjoyment in interactive entertainment.
*1 Folding@home is a distributed computing*2 project run by Stanford University which 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 has participated in this project.
*2 Distributed computing is an approach adopted by universities and research laboratories to utilize immense computing power without the use of central supercomputers. Small computing tasks are assigned to each user’s computer and the results are collected after computation is complete.
* For more information, please see the official website.
Source: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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I installed this yesterday and wasn’t impressed. It’s a bit like the Wii news and weather channels but with less information, covering only the major cities and is less user friendly. I’m not exactly sure of it’s purpose or if it will ever be used.
I think Its a useless app….. It would be better if you could enter your area code and recieve news and weather that way….It only covers a handful or major cities…. and the music sucks….Inferior in every way….good idea but (as always) I expected more from SONY….Not worth the 120Mb download
bad. if they had done something like ‘everyday together’ like they have in japan it would have been amazing. but no, usual pile of fail, used it twice, doubt i’ll bother loading it again unless it gets some good content.