00:01...to connect families and friends together in a pretty compelling new way.
00:05And this is what we call Video Connect.
00:07And Video Connect is, well a lot of people will be familiar with the general concept of being able to
00:12video chat with one another with webcams and that sort of stuff with your PC.
00:16We're going to take that to a completely new level as well.
00:19Again, building on this idea of simplicity that I showed you with the Connect Hub, I can instantly get access
00:25to my friends.
00:26I select my friends, two of us are talking to one another.
00:30But here's the cool part.
00:31So just like what you saw with ESPN where we're blending the community and information together, you're seeing we're showing
00:36weather for the two people that are chatting right now.
00:40So, of course, that's a conversation starter.
00:42If you notice really a very subtle thing, a very powerful thing, as he's calling for his son Bob to
00:48come in right now, what's going to happen is Connect's going to look at the people in the room and
00:52it's going to pan out.
00:53It's going to actually know who's in the room and it's going to do exactly what's happening on the camera
00:57right now, which is zooming in and out, which is a very compelling feature.
01:01Not only will we be able to do neat things like that where we can get a better sense of
01:05your focus and looking at your eyes and such.
01:07We're also going to bring in Bing feeds, more conversation starters.
01:10So we'll have like the top categories, news, sports, travel, movies, and music, where we'll have videos that you can
01:16share with one another while you're chatting.
01:18Be able to use that as, again, a conversation starter and a way to connect with your friends.
01:22Of course, we'll support gestures and voice.
01:25What's about to happen right now as these folks are wrapping up their chat is she's going to issue a
01:30command that takes a picture.
01:31And what's cool about that is you can use that picture as the cover of your contact card.
01:36So, again, as simple as, you know, switching a channel, you'll be able to instantly connect with your friends using
01:41Video Connect.
01:42And there you can see Kelly and Jim.
01:43There's their picture on the screen now.
01:46Now, last thing I want to tell you guys about Video Connect is not only is it going to be
01:50couch to couch through the Connect sensor,
01:53but we'll also support over the next year Windows Live Messenger and the hundreds of millions of people around the
01:58world being able to connect with each other on and off the console.
02:02So we think this is an incredible new communication tool for folks on and off the console.
02:07So last thing I'll tell you is with Xbox Live and what we're doing, we've announced nine new countries.
02:13We'll be in 35 countries by the end of the year.
02:15We're broadening the scope and the availability for a lot of these features to be reached around the world.
02:20Super excited to take the 25 million users that we have today to a completely new level.
02:25So thanks for tuning in.
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