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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDavid James Quinn, Emad Barsoum, Charles Claudius Marais, John Raymond Justice, Krassimir Emilov Karamfilov, Roderick Michael Toll
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Embodiments of the present invention split game processing and rendering between a client and a game server. A rendered video game image is received from a game server and combined with a rendered image generated by the game client to form a single video game image that is presented to a user. Game play may be controlled using a rich sensory input, such as three-dimensional image data and audio data. The three-dimensional image data describes the shape, size and orientation of objects present in a play space. The rich sensory input is communicated to a game server, potentially with some preprocessing, and is also consumed locally on the client, at least in part. In one embodiment, latency sensitive features are the only features processed on the client and rendered on the client.
One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computing device perform a method of playing a video game using rich sensory data as a control input in a server based gaming environment, the method comprising:
The media of claim 3, wherein the method further comprises communicating control input derived from the rich data stream from the game client to the game server.
A method for playing a video game using rich sensory data as a control input, the method comprising;
One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that when executed by a computing device perform a method for playing a video game using three-dimensional image data as a control input, the method comprising;
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