Start your “Life with PlayStation”

[wraggster]

If you’ve ever wished you could find everything you need to start your day on your PLAYSTATION 3, Life with PlayStation give you one more reason to do so. This free service delivers a new way for you to utilize your PS3 to instantly access real-time news and information like weather updates from over 60 cities around the world.

Life with PlayStation provides a stunning interactive globe, a 3D world map that you can twirl around to see live cloud movement courtesy of the University of Wisconsin, combined with up-to-date weather information from the Weather Channel, top news headlines provided by Google news, and live web cam images via the Earth Television Network — all localized to the select city. And why not have your favorite soundtrack playing in the background while you go through your morning ritual (just think, no TV commercials and teasers to find out if you need to bring an umbrella to work)? You’re on your own for your morning caffeine fix.

For those following the progress of Hurricane Ike throughout last week, we were able to track the storm’s real-time movement from Life with PlayStation.

We’re also really excited to share that this new lifestyle service is running in parallel with our Folding@home project. Essentially, this means that while you’re taking a stroll on Life with PlayStation, you’re automatically helping Stanford University to work towards curing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and various types of cancers. For those familiar with Folding@home, we’ve made some enhancements for more advanced simulations of protein folding and support for wider variety of simulations, in addition to adding a unique ranking system showcasing top contributors from around the world.

I’ve also put together a quick video demo to make sure you’re checking out all the new features here:

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/...tion%E2%80%9D/

[mcdougall57]

Like the weather and news channel on the wii?

[sorceror]

Like the weather and news channel on the wii?

Looks like it, only with snazzy HD graphics. (Being able to see the actual clouds on the globe is a nice touch.) I'm not complaining, it's a nice thing to have.

[jrsmaster411]

pretty much except your helping fight Alzheimer’s while you get your news and weather also it's probably updated more regularly unlike wii which shows you the weather 3 hours ago cause it hasn't updated >

[KFR42]

My one major gripe is that is showing of which parts of the world are in darkness is horribly out of time. I was on there at 6pm, brilliant sunshine (behind the clouds) outside, yet life with playstation seemed to be claiming it was night time here.