Reach out and tickle someone.
Date: Saturday, May 15 @ 19:38:54 UTC
Topic: Xbox Live
Xbox Live users can already talk to each other remotely while logged in - but soon they'll be able to see their fellow players' faces and "tickle" each other, too. According to Peter Moore, an Xbox marketing executive, Xbox's video-chat service will be launched this year exclusively in Japan. A North America release is also on the table. Due to it's superior broadband infrastructure Japan was slated first. With the added service you will not only be able to play against your friends, or talk to your friends - now you can actually see your friends."
Microsoft has not determined how much extra it will charge to download and operate software for the video-chat option. Regular Xbox Live subscriptions cost about $50 a year. Video chat also would require users to have a USB camera attached to their Xbox console.
In addition, the host of the chat session will be able to select background music that all participants can hear through their microphone headsets - which are already available for players to communicate during a game.
Then there is "tickling."
You can send a vibration to one of the participants in the chat session, which vibrates the controller they're holding. I guess that is a step up from smileys :)
Info obtained from GameInformer Magazine
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