Another announcement Sony made today was something called "Life with Playstation". The PS3 currently has a music visualization called "Gaea" that is an extremely realistic looking earth and gives different 3D views of it.

Life with Playstation will take Gaea and add accurate news and weather from around the entire world, even letting you see storms as they develop in 3D, and lets you interact with it. It will have everything from news to geotagging and custom soundtracks. There's currently no release date for it, but I personally can't wait!

So what is the recently unveiled Life with PlayStation? Well, it takes the globe (featured as a PS3 music visualization) and adds news and weather from around the world. It reminds us of the Wii Weather channel, but in glorious 1080p. Pictures from Watch Impress show the ability to use custom soundtracks. It also appears the channel will integrate with Folding@home in some way, allowing you to cure cancer while reading the daily news.

Life with PlayStation won't be the "next big thing," but it's certainly intriguing. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some hands-on time with it in due time.

Guticb via ps3fanboy.com »