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Xbox One Dashboard Leak - Version 2
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thekonamicode
Member
I love Metro on my Lumia ... it just doesn't appeal to me on a non-touchscreen UI.
A lot of people like Metro yes. What don't you like about the new dashboard?
Remember, Kinect will help navigation immensely. Being able to say something and it comes up is huge.
Thanks.
mdtauk
Member
The new Smartglass should support navigating the Xbox One UI, so you should be able to use your Lumia to control it.
Fresh Face
Banned
Also, it works excellently with a controller on a console. Been using it on the 360 for a while and I really do like it. I like it more than most other console UIs I've used.
For a desktop though...I've been using windows 8 and, while it works, it really isn't the greatest.
EDIT: also, what are those things on either side of the guide button? They look like LCD screens.
Naked Lunch
Member
My 360/PS3 take a hella long time to load games - the insta load showed in this vid will be very welcome. I like how the main game in the tray - or games being loaded is displayed in a big box unlike the tiny box on 360. The dash looks great.
I saw a screen cap in the original thread of a white label on the console but it was whited out because he had the flash on during the recording.
I noticed that as he pans out it clears up a bit and you can see the writing on the white label. I was wondering if there was anyone that could possibly screen cap it at that moment and maybe zoom it in a bit to see whats written on there?
I noticed that as he pans out it clears up a bit and you can see the writing on the white label. I was wondering if there was anyone that could possibly screen cap it at that moment and maybe zoom it in a bit to see whats written on there?
Time stamp?
They are the IR lights in the controller that Kinect can see. Kinda like the 3 purple dots on the Kinect, the camera the kid is using is able to pick up the IR emitters.
I believe its just the designation stickers that say it is a Dev or beta unit and what number it is.
lostsouldier
Banned
Had a Lumia 900 since May of last year. Metro is nice, but not being able to have an actual wallpaper behind them (if you only want a few tiles on home screen) gets very aggravating after awhile. Im sick of looking at either a white or black background with a bunch of tiles covering it. It's not aesthetically pleasing to my eyes!
I absolutely hated how the 360 was set up when it came to Wallpapers (which i could never get onto the system) and setting the tiles up. The 360 UI was waaaay better than the XMB, but when it comes to customization the PS3 blew it away. I could save any image from the web browser as a wallpaper and even download entire new themes right from the PS3 itself. For being an OS company, Microsoft has some kind of weird beef with people changing the look of their UI. Its maddening to me.
Fresh Face
Banned
Cool, but then why aren't they on the front of the controller?
Ol No Bones
Banned
You would think he would have had the sense to wipe down the console or not put his fingers all over it in the first place.
That whole plastic thing is clear but dark enough for a human eye not see through. If you watch, when he shows the back, you can see the light coming through on the top on the controller as well.
they are .. its just giving it more of a chance of being seen so you do not have to point the controller directly at kinnect.
Fresh Face
Banned
M-hm. Good design choice.
BruiserBear
Banned
I'm kind of a fan of this dashboard. Curious to see the version consumers will see in the fall though, ads and all. I suspect they'll be more prominent than we're seeing here.
Yup, cause it spread like wild fire. The top 25 xbox one news stories today on google are about this video.
PodcastFips
Member
Well it looks okay. Okay, because I hated metro on my Windows 8 so much that I reinstalled 7.
Minimizing the running game and scrolling through the UI was cool from a graphical stand point though.
(Still a bit sceptical about PS4's UI, too, btw.)
Minimizing the running game and scrolling through the UI was cool from a graphical stand point though.
(Still a bit sceptical about PS4's UI, too, btw.)
apparently the other video on the kid's channel (which by the way uses his real name) contained footage of the family so it's gg for whichever employee this xbox one kit went out to
Liabe Brave
Member
The sticker is blurry, but it looks almost exactly like the UPC/SKU/serial barcode stickers that come on retail Microsoft product (which I see daily at work).
Those wouldn't be on the top and front of the box.
Look at the back left, this is from a pocket lint.com gallery of a dev unit.
GunFingers
Member
I think the front sticker on the box in the video was a QR code, and I seem to recall seeing somewhere that the QR codes were put on boxes given out for broader internal testing. I could be remembering that wrong, though.
3rdamention
Member
Uhhhhh, what about Kinect?
Between this leak and the displays going up in the MS stores has me starting to feel the launch hype. I don't have one of these preordered, but Phil Spencer said I can walk in launch day and buy. I might consider it. Or I might get a Wii U to go with my PS4 preorder
...seriously
yep
cr_blah_blah
Member
At least that giant screen in the middle is the game you're playing and not a huge ad
I thinkit looks great, it has "pins" and then sections like games and tv on the uper part separated. But one question, can people upload videos and photos to their profile like the facebook-style feed on the ps4? If not they should add it with an update as a "friends activity" section on the upper part.
The white stickers are the same as the ones in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI71Jzfp3TA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI71Jzfp3TA
Give it time.
mdtauk
Member
Andronicus
Banned
LOL
looks better than the PS4 dashboard
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Wow he on dashboard and game at the same time, pretty awesome.
SenkiDala
Member
I don't get it, why this dashboard is so awful for you?
Too many "little squares"? It's "messy"? But in fact the PS4 dashboard really looks like same:
Well except it's blue... It looks like same, or like a smartphone app.
Anyway I like both of them, but it's still funny to see that everytime there's a news about MS, the comments will be negatives.
Too many "little squares"? It's "messy"? But in fact the PS4 dashboard really looks like same:
Well except it's blue... It looks like same, or like a smartphone app.
Anyway I like both of them, but it's still funny to see that everytime there's a news about MS, the comments will be negatives.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Seems snappy and functional. Which is all that really matters.
But in terms of aesthetics....quite ugly.
But in terms of aesthetics....quite ugly.
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KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Well, then it seems more like an actual leak than I imagined. Guess I was wrong and underestimated his stupidity.