Phire Phox
Banned
You can use the snapping feature for Skype right? I think it'd pretty sweet to be able to Skype with someone while playing a game.
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Xbox One UI vid w/Snap
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I saw the Machinima wingman app video and this is the sort of thing I can really use while gaming.I hope this turns out as good as shown.Anyway I think the snap and other os features will eventually work as advertised and its allready looking workable.
This feels like the wiiU gamepad. It is a feature that the creator (Nintendo, MS) hasn't fully illustrated in a way that grabs everyone. That to me is why it feels like a solution in search of a problem. Why are we sitting here trying to figure out why it might be useful? Why haven't MS *shown* us how it could be useful. Just like Nintendo spending two E3s without really explaining why the gamepad was so special (other than off TV play)
Ploid 3.0
Member
Using PC for games and dual screen there are quite a few uses. Multitasking second nature kicks in and while a game is loading or someone is taking their turn in a fighting game from a online lobby you could just check out some gaf until your time comes. Or watch some netflix movie you had running in the background.
I don't know if this stuff will work as well as a PC but that's what I do constantly. I'd just stick to console on one tv with the PC on the other though. I can brows gaf or watch movies while playing GTAV.
Also I haven't heard much about their tv stuff, which services support Xbox one? Is directv in? It has quite a complex menu system.
This snap stuff must be eating a lot of processing power while running games. I wonder if it's possible to watch HD movies, and stuff while playing the games with no hit. What about web games like UT Live, or something more demanding. Play games while playing games! I once ran two full graphical games on PC when I first got mine. It was interesting.
A thought I think echoed by many.
Ploid 3.0
Member
It can replace your phone or tablet since you will be using them to interact with your games, which are currently squished to the side.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Huh, are we sure that's not a mock up?
The rumours were painting it as something that was fundamentally broken and wouldn't be fixed until months after launch?
Insider claims were exaggerated or relaying very old information?
The rumours were painting it as something that was fundamentally broken and wouldn't be fixed until months after launch?
Insider claims were exaggerated or relaying very old information?
show me your skeleton
Member
a mockup would be much smoother than that.
Americanmushroom
Banned
Yeah i still cant see the appeal in Snap. Looks like the same function on windows 8 i never use. Having an app, game squiched into a small bar on the right seems stupid to me
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
This kind of facetiousness doesn't help anyone.
Miles Quaritch
Member
I guess. The video from a days ago did look a lot smoother.
Certainly seems so...
It was a serious question. The rumours were incredibly damning with claims of console crashes, etc and yet it seems to work reasonably well.
I'm just trying to find out why the reality is so different from the insider leaks.
That's fucking horrible. Who WANTS something like that on a fucking game machine? Why? Why do I need a little internet explorer window next to my game? I'm owning a surface RT which basically works the same and I use it SOMETIMES there, but always in a work context. I can't even imagine how to combine that wih playing games so it makes actually make sense. Even then, my Surface would be just next to me and I wouldn't do it on the TV...
Zabant
Member
Guess rumours of this being broken were wrong, seems like its working to me, I mean, i'd never use it as I hate that kind of sensory overload, I like to give my full attention to one thing at a time and cant deal with "Watching F1 and playing Forza at the same time" or some of the other uses suggested in this thread.
But it's there, and I know some people will find some use for it. Cool
But it's there, and I know some people will find some use for it. Cool
Alx
Member
Well, leaks go unnoticed if there's no drama. Leakers mostly do it for attention, after all.
dragonelite
Member
Didn't see a crash?
Miles Quaritch
Member
captainraincoat
Banned
omg...great vid but i should not of read the youtube comments
I thought they cleaned that sort of shit up
I thought they cleaned that sort of shit up
dragonelite
Member
Pretty much wheres there's smoke there's fire..
But if what the OP showed is the problem i would be fine i have an tablet close by
if i need to look something up and i dont really touch the X1 except for gaming.
dude calm down, they're giving you an option, you're not forced to use it jesus
dem Youtube comments tho, ffs =_=
They are not just giving an option, they are spending ressources on that. Do you think that just happens by itself?
R3TRODYCE
Member
I didn't realize YouTube got so intense lol.
cebri.one
Member
This. Remeber simcity, wait 'till it hits the market.
Marvel
could never
Yeah, lol.
They are not just giving an option, they are spending ressources on that. Do you think that just happens by itself?
but there are people who like it and might have a use for this
i see this come in handy especially for fighting games, when i want to give a quick look to a combo inputs etc.
or even when i'm aiting in a lobby for more players and i don't have my tablet with me
I bet your rubbing your hands at the thought!
Whatever. I trust the insiders. Let me know when it's in thousands of homes and no reports of it crashing games.
Looked kind of alright to me. Would like to see more of the system. That said, I dislike the Xbox because of the way they handle themselves and the directions that they want to take the industry in, not because of their hardware or software. Sadly the latter is a relatively easy fix compared to the former.
Rndm
Member
To me it looked weird that the game was still running but you weren't attacked (not going into the pause menu). Was that like a training mode of Killer Instinct or does the game 'know' when you're using a different app and stays open, but does not really do anything until you're back at the game; like the game pauses but doesn't show a pause menu?
They are not just giving an option, they are spending ressources on that. Do you think that just happens by itself?
true.but according to ms having 3 os on top of eachother is the most efficient setup. Which does make sense I guess.
Alx
Member
The video was probably taken from one of the demo setups that are used for the Xbox tour, and KI is only playable in versus mode in those (no CPU player). So the characters stop attacking only because the people who made the video stopped pushing buttons.
Meus Renaissance
Member
Agreed
LowerLevel
Member
Serious question, were the issues of SimCity documented before or after release? I only ask because the MS team theoretically still have time to make this feature better BEFORE "it hit's the market".
You see, you kinda described why that feature is shit.
1. You have a tablet
2. only a very specialized usage scenario
In reality, you will use it once to try it out and then a 2nd time within very rare cirumcstances. BUT the whole system is CONSTANTLY giving ressources to that. Isn't that amazing? It'just like MS didn't think or ONE second what their product is supposed to be. Why should someone buy a game console to dive into beautiful immersive gaming worlds just to have only 3/4 of the screen with the internet explorer next to it.
Which brings me to the next problem. Surfing the INternet. With Internet Explorer. With a controller. From a couch. Wow, that is great, isn't it?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
From Septic who is still waiting to be authorised after 5 months of waiting (come on guys give the man a break) You never know, he might have more stuff like this! Another possible insider would be welcome here on GAF ... no?
Anyway here are the pictures he took:
Another possible insider would be welcome here on GAF ... no?Anyway here are the pictures he took:
MysticGoujon
Banned
Looks pretty good to me, loving the options on notifications, will probably have mine set to Skype and messages only.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Common sense should dictate that, I'm afraid. The basic idea is that you want to be able to do something without being dragged entirely out of one experience and into another, as it's done on the 360. This offers a way to have two distinctly different experiences going at the same exact time with the user being able to seamlessly interact with either one. I don't need some canned, and badly acted demonstration of how it can be useful. I already know how, and Microsoft themselves have already shown some of the ways it can be used, conveniently accompanied by bad acting.
Watching a football game? Maybe you want to snap fantasy football, or head to espn site to take a look at scores. Playing a game, want to stop and tell some people on twitter about it? Snap twitter, tweet, and then go back to your game. I mean, it's so easy to find how it would be useful. You can even Skype and chat with a friend while you're busy editing a video in upload studio. You and a friend can both be watching the same movie on your xbox ones, but have a Skype video chat open on the side so you guys can talk about what you're seeing. You are playing a game of killer instinct, and then you can snap and start a twitch broadcast is the way I believe that worked. Or what's to stop you from twitch live streaming a game of Ryse SP? Microsoft has already shown a multitude of ways for it work. The rest is really up to common sense after that.
The Xbox One OS really does look nice. Can't wait, man.
MonkeyKnuckle
Member
That cools pretty cool and, if it works like that, very useful for some.