This could be awesome for a LAN or Xbox Live gathering online. It’s a Pizza Hut app for your Xbox that lets you order tasty pizzas using hand gestures or voice commands straight from your living room. If you thought the app that let’s you create your own pizza on your smartphone, or the one that lets you find one of the 9 000 pizzerias in New York were great, then this will blow your mind. This new Kinect-integrated feature by Pizza Hut app is for those intrepid couch potatoes out there seeking new and interesting ways getting their pizzas delivered from point A to point B. According to Polygon, while having access to Pizza Hut’s menu on their TV screen, users can “build their own customized pizzas and place orders via Kinect motion controls, voice commands or the controller.”
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This collaboration between Microsoft and Pizza Hut seems to show how competitive the pizza industry really is. They even have integrated features making your pizza ordering and delivery experience more ‘social’ by encouraging you to share your appetite with your Facebook friends. Noted, this would probably be a neat party trick apart from other entertainment options such as streaming media or jamming games on your Xbox. Pizza Hut, Dominos and Papa John’s have all had four to five-star apps since last year but apparently people want something even more than pressing a button and have something appear– they want entertaining ways in doing so. And that’s what the Xbox is all about.
This app shows us that Microsoft is increasingly trying really hard finding new ways in making the Xbox the epic centerpiece of your living room. Or it shows us how two companies are taking advantage of an extremely lazy and bored market.
If you are to lazy to order a pizza from let’s say your phone or your PC and you’re looking for innovative ways to entertain yourself and guests when ordering food — this seems to be it.
