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Cortana has a new battle ahead. War with Siri.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103144/leak-reveals-cortana-windows-phone-8-1s-mashup-of-siri-and-google-now.html -
Project Spark Enters Open Beta on Xbox One
Ahead of full release later this year.
by Luke Karmali MARCH 4, 2014
Project Spark is now in open beta on Xbox One, Microsoft has announced.
Though slightly later than promised, the beta is now available on console having first appear on Windows 8.1 devices back in December. Anyone who participated in the PC beta should have automatic access to the Xbox One version, though anyone can sign up and get a key: https://joinprojectspark.com/
Cross-platform support and Cloud Saves mean that you'll be able to create something on a Windows 8.1 device then test it out on Xbox One and vice versa.
The game is expected to be released later this year. The good news is that Team Dakota has previously confirmed you won't need an Xbox Live Gold subscription in order to play the ambitious game-creation software when it's finally available to all.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/04/project-spark-enters-open-beta-on-xbox-one
Gotta find time for this in between Garden Warfare and Titanfall. -
gonna be a micro transaction fest.. i was looking forward to it but i dont know know .. ill try it
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Damn that ? looks dope ..
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U beat me to it. Lol
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Improved Multiplayer & Party chat
Cross title party chat
Party chat on by default
Easier multiplayer invites
Easier multiplayer joining
Ability to see what the people in your party are doing
Improved Friends List + Profile
Improved friends list utility & speed of access
Ability to see people you recently played games with
See when friends are broadcasting, including live broadcast thumbnails in activity feed
Get to a friend’s profile faster using type-ahead suggestions
Contextual app menu actions on friends list and activity feed items
Enabled more multiplayer (join and invite) actions on user profiles
54 new contest-winning gamerpics
Twitch TV live streaming support
Broadcast gameplay on Twitch.TV through Xbox LIVE (When the updated Twitch app ships next week.)
Voice support for starting and ending broadcast
Bringing out social in home
See favorite friends currently online
See friends broadcasting gameplay
Miscellaneous shell improvements
Improved notification center experiences including “quiet mode”
View Game Clips while in snap mode
Protect user settings with passkey
Browser improvements
Control Bing and Google maps with gesture and controller
Quick search when highlighting a term on a page
When searching from Bing search on the console, direct link to Internet Explorer in order to see additional web results.
New Devices – Driver and Firmware updates
Firmware update to the Xbox One controller to support the Xbox One stereo headset adapter
Support for 1st and 3rd party headsets
Driver updates for the Xbox One Media Remote
SmartGlass Improvements
Push notification to your device for Xbox Live messages
Quickly see what a friend is doing including presence and recent
Enhanced viewing of personal and a friend’s game progress and clips
Ability to close snap from SmartGlass
Live TV
50Hz fix – users can set the Live TV app to display at 50Hz for full or fill modes
Volume up/down adjustments – user can tailor the number of volume increments when using “volume up” or “volume down” commands
IR blasting of power & volume to TVs/AVRs in all regions
AVR setup maps to include model number for most sound bars or AVRs when setting up TV
Improved Audio output support
SPDIF (optical out) now supports 5.1 Dolby Digital – enabling devices such as sound bars with only Optical In to be able to receive 5.1 Dolby Digital from console over optical
HDMI output now supports stereo uncompressed, 5.1 uncompressed, 7.1 uncompressed or 5.1 Dolby Digital live or 5.1 DTS -
No voice messaging -______-
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So what about notifications when a friends comes online?
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So what about notifications when a friends comes online?
"The March update that delivers Twitch will also bring back toasts to the Xbox, the little notification pop-ups that appear on the screen. Gibson said Twitch will have its own toasts, alerting you when a friend starts broadcasting. These pop-ups, which can be disabled, won't appear on live broadcasts for others to see. Microsoft clarified that while Twitch pop-up notifications (or toasts) are coming to Xbox One with the March 11 update, friend toasts won't be coming until the following update, which could arrive as early as April. "
http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/28/5456410/twitch-xbox-one-vs-ps4-streaming -
LMAO COD Ghosts MP free for the weekend damn
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The developers of Alan Wake and the upcoming Quantum Break now have an Oscar in their midst, further raising their new game's profile in Microsoft's big multimedia push on Xbox One. The third-person shooter, in which unforeseen anomalies fling bits of the world forward in time, will have a companion television show and visual effects work from some of the recognized talent behind Alfonso Cuarón's boundless space film, Gravity.
In a note on the official Remedy Games website, the staff congratulates Greg Louden for his work at London-based effects studio Framestore, which won an Academy Award last week for Best Visual Effects. According to Louden's resume, he oversaw shots of Gravity's computer-generated interiors, with a focus on the free-floating objects that surrounded Sandra Bullock's stranded character. The film was entirely pre-visualized and extensively animated, making it an even greater achievement in visual effects than it might first appear. Gravity was also given gongs for its director, cinematography, editing, musical score, sound mixing, sound editing.
At Remedy, Louden is working not only on visual effects for Quantum Break, but on scripting and designing events as part of level design. The environment for visual effects is arguably more challenging in games, which are expected to display high-quality graphics in real-time and in a way that responds well to the player. And even with top-notch effects, the approval of players may still be harder to earn than an Academy Award.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/05/quantum-break-nabs-an-oscar-winning-connection-to-gravity/ -
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I have no idea what he's talking about but it seems GOAT.
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April OS Update: Xbox One Keeps Getting Better with the Help of Our Fans
By Major Nelson posted March 18, 2014 at 6:00 AM
We announced last month that we’ve invited select Xbox Live members to preview system updates early. The engagement from the community has been incredible and we’ve gotten valuable feedback and bugs that have helped inform our feature improvements and quality before we rolled out the system update to the broader community. Thank you to those who shared their thoughts and let us know what they loved and what wasn’t working so well.
We will continue to push new features and other updates to these folks to explore and we’ll be trying new things with the UI, like notifications, different ways of discoverability, and a bunch of other ideas the team is working on. Through this process, some features will launch, others might not and all will be refined through feedback. We value your feedback and want your help shaping the future of Xbox One.
Today we’re excited to share the next wave of features that we will begin to roll out. These features will become available to members getting the early previews in the coming days and weeks and will be available to the full Xbox Live community in April.
- Game and app saves and updates. A game save progress bar will show you the status of your game saves. You will also be able to easily tell what games and apps are being updated or have been updated recently.
- Friends improvements. Notifications will be added to see when favorites and friends sign in to Xbox Live. This actually was one of the most frequently requested features from the first preview wave and we made it a priority to include it in the April update. Also, friends who are in multiplayer will be identified in the friends list. We’ll also add the ability to view friends’ most popular apps.
- Kinect voice and motion improvements will continue to fine tune the quality and reliability of Xbox One commands.
- Improved GameDVR video quality through compression algorithm improvements.
We’re also extending more invitations to Xbox Live members around the world in our current 13 Xbox One markets. New invitees will be sent an Xbox Live message to register. Once registered, you will be able to test the early features included in the update and provide feedback on a private forum.
We value all of the feedback we are getting from you. We know external hard drive storage is still a big one and we’ve promised before it’s on our list – I assure you that it still is. We’ll continue regular updates to Xbox One. Thanks for your support.
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What did updating the controller do?
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funkdocdamc wrote: »What did updating the controller do?
think its required o use new headset and the adapter piece -
John_Blazini wrote: »funkdocdamc wrote: »What did updating the controller do?
think its required o use new headset and the adapter piece
They gon release a new update in the future because there are still some headphones that aren't compatible. Can't do voice chat on my Beats but the I get sound effects through them. -
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Another update is live.
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Yup just got mine
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Getting mines now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tbfhx7rtEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE95tKNPCco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z-XS-bjF4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUpf0HFUmqDTnUY0fgaLqnFA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJfWLqAxJI
http://youtu.be/it12swNra80