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Sony unveils "Life with Playstation" service for PS3

Guticb | June 26, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
Another announcement Sony made today was something called "Life with Playstation". The PS3 currently has a music visualization called "Gaea" that is an extremely realistic looking earth and gives different 3D views of it.

Life with Playstation will take Gaea and add accurate news and weather from around the entire world, even letting you see storms as they develop in 3D, and lets you interact with it. It will have everything from news to geotagging and custom soundtracks. There's currently no release date for it, but I personally can't wait!
So what is the recently unveiled Life with PlayStation? Well, it takes the globe (featured as a PS3 music visualization) and adds news and weather from around the world. It reminds us of the Wii Weather channel, but in glorious 1080p. Pictures from Watch Impress show the ability to use custom soundtracks. It also appears the channel will integrate with Folding@home in some way, allowing you to cure cancer while reading the daily news.

Life with PlayStation won't be the "next big thing," but it's certainly intriguing. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some hands-on time with it in due time.
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    Fatal Error | June 27, 2008
    This actually sounds pretty cool, as much as it might not really be that "useful". I think it'll be a pretty neat feature I'd like to see when implemented.
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    HisServant77 | June 27, 2008
    Same here I hope it's done well . . . If so, I could get some good use out of it with the real-time weather patterns
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    Gamesta100 | June 27, 2008
    That sounds freaking SWEET!!!
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    grayfox2 | June 27, 2008
    At first I thought it meant a Lifetime Guarantee or or something lol. This is cool too though.
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    Drogo Baggins | June 27, 2008
    Eventually, the PS3 will control the weather...just you wait and see...


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