Microsoft trademarks 'Direct Reality', but no one knows what it means

With the annual video game mega-trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), just days away, everyone is going crazy over any little new morsel of information relating to the Xbox, PS4, or Nintendo Switch. It doesn't get any littler than an unexplained trademark filing, but the timing is right for Microsoft's new "Direct Reality" trademark to have something to do with what the company plans to reveal next week. The trademark, discovered by GameSpot, was filed just a matter of days ago, on June 2. According to the filing, the Direct Reality name applies to "computer game software" and "online… [Continue Reading]