“I’m really excited about the future.”
January 8, 2021Wearing a sharkskin sportcoat over dark jeans and an untucked shirt, Marc Whitten strode onto center stage inside a massive tent on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.
As I sat in the audience of the company’s marquee event of 2013, Whitten was prepared to talk science — and a little magic.
Over the next ten minutes, flanked by six massive screens and dappled in apple-green light, Whitten painted a picture of a next-generation console powered by cloud computing. The Xbox One would deliver engaging cross-platform experiences, shaping new interactions that promised to blur the line between gaming and other mediums. It was, he said, “rocket science-level stuff.”
Read my full interview with Marc Whitten, vice president of entertainment devices and services at Amazon, on Inverse, where this story originally ran on Jan. 7, 2021.
