Autonomous Sniper System
Space Dynamics Laboratory created a lightweight UAV with gun turret. The UAV has a .338 Lapua Magnum rifle and a camera mounted to it, and features a scope that has two levels of zoom. All this weaponry is controled with a laptop and a Xbox 360 controller.
Israeli Military
A subsidiary of Microsoft called Rare developed the Kinect technology. Israeli developer developed the system that can interpret your gestures to help make hands free electronic device control just by using the infrared projector and camera. This software can record all movements in a virtual 3 dimension world.
Halo
In 2011 Microsoft stopped support for the original Halo game and console. This has ended online multi-player gaming for many of the older gamers who do not want to adapt to the newer games and cannot move on. Some gamers tried so hard to not give up on their faded glory and still play Halo 2 on the original console. Of course some people faced over heating consoles or lost internet connections, but it is reported that 13 players are still killing each other on the OG Xbox.
Mike Rowe
A student by the name of Mike Rowe bought the domain name Mikerowesoft.com and Microsoft sent the Mike a copyright lawsuit for owning the domain. He declined Microsoft offer of $10, which was how much he paid for the domain, but eventually gave up the rights. He received a new compensation of a paid trip to Washington to receive a Microsoft certification, and a brand new Xbox.
Dreamcast
Did you know that Microsoft first dabbled in the video game business with Dreamcast? That is right in 1998 Microsoft teamed up with SEGA to work on the Dreamcast, Microsoft offered a optimized Windows CE OS with DirectX. This is what the Dreamcast ran on, too bad SEGA did not do well with this system.
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