GamingNew preview features for Windows 10 & Xbox One

New preview features for Windows 10 & Xbox One

-

- Advertisement -

Microsoft has announced it’s starting to roll out a host of new preview features this week, which includes game streaming from Xbox One to Windows 10 PC testing for those using the Xbox on Windows 10 beta.

Here’s what to expect for Xbox on Windows 10 with this month’s Xbox app preview:

– Avatars – Users can now download and launch the Avatars app from within the Xbox app.
Friends updates – Adding friends is easier with the ability to designate them as favourites and share your name from the Xbox app. Users can also now report or block people from the Xbox app.

– Game hubs – Similar to Xbox One, users can now view the game hub for an Xbox One game and view the activity feed curated by the game’s community manager.
Game DVR – Users can now alter the keyboard shortcuts used for opening the Game Bar, starting and stopping recording, taking screenshots, and view and manage cloud-based game clips from the Xbox app .
– Testing streaming – The Xbox team needs help in providing information about PC performance and connectivity characteristics in perpetration for game streaming from Xbox One to Windows 10 PCs. By participating, users will anonymously send the team diagnostic information on their PC and network settings.
– Turn On/Off your Xbox One Console – The Connect menu in Xbox app has been updated to let users power Xbox One on and off from Windows 10 devices when they are on the same home network.
The Xbox app on Windows 10 PCs will automatically update to the May preview version when it becomes available in the Windows Store.Xbox One updates

– Xbox One Digital TV Tuner in 11 new European countries – The team will continue to test the Xbox One Digital TV with the preview audience in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland, with plans to make it available to all customers in these countries later this summer.

– Wireless Display app – The team continues to make improvements to the Miracast functionality in the Wireless Display app based on that feedback.
Chris Hare
Chris Hare
A True Tech Geek at Heart, I Started my life of being a Tech Geek at the age of 5 with the BBC Micro. Went on through most of Nintendo stuff and now a Xbox and PlayStation fan. I also leaked the information about the leaked Hotmail passwords story from October 2009 that went World Wide. I Started writing tech articles at the beginning of 2011, most of my articles are about Android phones and Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and other gaming news. When Chris has free time its with the family.

1 COMMENT

Comments are closed.

Stay connected

7,137FansLike
8,566FollowersFollow
27,000SubscribersSubscribe

LATEST REVIEWS

You might also likeRELATED
Recommended to you