The Game Guru: Xbox creates new pizza hut app.

As if obesity wasn’t an issue in the United States, Xbox and Pizza Hut have joined forces and now you can order pizza right from the comfort of your Xbox. Utilizing the Kinect sensor, gamers can speak their order, use gestures, or just rely on the good old controller to place an order. Since you tell Microsoft your address and credit card number when you sign up for Xbox Live, putting your order in is as easy as (pizza) pie.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out how this would be any more convenient than just picking up your phone and ordering it. I mean, since it’s a system application, this means you would have to quit your game to launch the app, rather than just hitting pause to pick up the phone. Even if you don’t feel like talking to anyone to order your pizza, you can already pick up your smart-phone or tablet, or just log on to your computer and order online without speaking to anyone except the guy or gal that delivers your cheesy deliciousness.
Microsoft isn’t the first company to use games to aid in your quest for hot, fresh pizza. Back in 2005, Sony put a pizza-ordering function into Everquest II, and in 2009 they added a shortcut to Papa John’s on the PS3’s web browser. According to the release, this is the first tangible item to be available through the Xbox 360; however Forbes magazine predicts that in the long run, we could see more.
Perhaps what I am more interested in is another human interactive application known as  IllumiRoom. Microsoft unveiled the new technology at CES. IllumiRoom is an augmented reality projector unit that sits on the user’s coffee table and extends gaming onto nearby walls. The current prototype utilizes a Kinect sensor and a projector. The Kinect reads the geometry and colors of the room, and the projector displays all the visuals around the TV.
There are a variety of ways that IllumiRoom can enhance the quality of your gaming by extending the game from your TV out onto the walls, highlighting key items or other players that are off screen or just simply highlighting elements of the game, such as gunfire or explosions. With IllumiRoom, things can appear to actually fall from your TV onto the floor.
Although it is speculated that the new technology will be implemented into the Xbox 720, I guess we will have to wait until the May 21 event regarding the next generation console, or at E3 which starts in June.