Submission + - Xbox Live Goes Road Trippin'
Brandon Wirtz writes: "GWN has a feature on Microsoft Employee Brandon Wirtz, who recently spent $4,000 (about 242,000 Microsoft Points, if you're curious) to rig up Xbox Live in his SUV so he could play Uno while cruising around the WiFi enabled city of Mountain View, in California.
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Any gearhead-gamer with enough guile can install an LCD in their interior, but even though racing a few laps of Gran Turismo on the highway can create some satisfying meta-gaming, unless you're willing to run a few miles of Cat 5 cable, you'll still be sans one critical feature: online multiplayer. That is, of course, unless you're fortunate enough call Mountain View, CA, home: where Google was kind enough to provide free WiFi across town. Using the airwaves to his advantage, Brandon Wirtz, a compressionist for the IPTV team at Microsoft, successfully connects to Xbox Live with the use of a laptop, a power inverter, and a sleek 23" Samsung LCD for a hand or two of Uno and some Rainbow Six: Vegas with Major Nelson."
Check out the headshot!"
Any gearhead-gamer with enough guile can install an LCD in their interior, but even though racing a few laps of Gran Turismo on the highway can create some satisfying meta-gaming, unless you're willing to run a few miles of Cat 5 cable, you'll still be sans one critical feature: online multiplayer. That is, of course, unless you're fortunate enough call Mountain View, CA, home: where Google was kind enough to provide free WiFi across town. Using the airwaves to his advantage, Brandon Wirtz, a compressionist for the IPTV team at Microsoft, successfully connects to Xbox Live with the use of a laptop, a power inverter, and a sleek 23" Samsung LCD for a hand or two of Uno and some Rainbow Six: Vegas with Major Nelson."
Check out the headshot!"
