What the Heck is SmartGlass? (MSFT)

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) SmartGlass is causing a buzz at this year's E3 expo in Los Angeles. If you’re thinking it is a new kind of touch-screen glass like the kind used on Samsung’s new smartphone... you're way off base. In fact, SmartGlass isn’t a glass at all, it is an app.

Although it isn’t perfectly clear how it works, the latest buzz in the tech world heralds it as an application that will work with Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system by linking up tablets and smartphones with the Xbox console and, by extension, a user's TV.

The most similar product on the market now is Apple’s Airplay, which streams content from a user’s iPhone to the TV, but according to Microsoft, SmartGlass will take it to the next level. It is all part of Microsoft’s plan to make the Xbox the center of home electronic entertainment...

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