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Xbox One Dashboard video shows off multitasking with Kinect

We were impressed when we last saw Xbox One's new Dashboard. With a new promotional video from Microsoft, you'll be able to see why.
Andrew Yoon
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We were impressed when we last saw Xbox One's new Dashboard. With a new promotional video from Microsoft, you'll be able to see why.

You'll only see a glimpse of how Microsoft is implementing its Windows 8-inspired tile system with Xbox One. The big box in the middle is reserved for either a game in your disc tray or whatever app you have suspended at the moment. (In this instance, it's watching Pacific Rim.) Below that, you'll see your most-recently used apps. You'll also see "What's New" advertising on the right side.

The rest of the video focuses on the multitasking capability of Xbox One, enabled largely by Kinect voice commands. You'll be able to quickly jump from movie to game, while recording a gameplay clip by saying "Xbox Record." You'll also be able to watch TV, answer Skype calls, and pin Internet Explorer while using the system--if you wish to do so.

It's unlikely that a typical Xbox session will be as busy as this, but this video highlights exactly how Microsoft intends your Xbox One to be the "all-in-one" entertainment system:

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 28, 2013 7:00 AM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Xbox One Dashboard video shows off multitasking with Kinect.

    We were impressed when we last saw Xbox One's new Dashboard. With a new promotional video from Microsoft, you'll be able to see why.

    • yoshimi20 legacy 10 years
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      October 28, 2013 7:22 AM

      All PR with how its spliced together. But it does look good if it works even slightly as good as that. See no amazing reason why it wouldn't when you hear about how the virtualization in the OS works etc.

      • king_darius legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 28, 2013 7:57 AM

        That is one really annoying thing about these kinds of videos, is the obvious and non-obvious ways it's fabricated. Obvious being: right, Titanfall will load a multiplayer match from the dashboard in 8 seconds? Non-obvious being who the fuck knows, right?

        • yoshimi20 legacy 10 years
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          October 28, 2013 8:21 AM

          It's the way the PR machine works to be honest. You could give them amazing real time footage and they'd still prefer to generate their own video they can splice together.

        • yoshimi20 legacy 10 years
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          October 28, 2013 8:22 AM

          The Titan Fall thing though isn't that far off, you can join a lobby waiting to start a map and then flip back to the game when the map is ready. If they linked that in with a party type system where it waited for all your friends to be ready to join that would be even sweeter.

        • disembodied potato legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 28, 2013 8:48 AM

          You don't have to load when its already in the cloud bro.

    • Firefly1985 legacy 10 years
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      October 28, 2013 7:29 AM

      If it works any where near as crisp as that, I would be really impressed. But that is a huge if

    • Gwyndion legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 28, 2013 8:05 AM

      This is all great, and if it actually works like that... then it's pretty amazing. But it's hard to 'buy' into this video as an actual thing which exists, when the Titanfall footage they show is a video from a gameplay trailer a few weeks ago. So you aren't switching to a game there, you are switching to a video feed. And then the rest of it all just looks like an exercise in video editing instead of a new next gen console OS in action.

    • rick legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 28, 2013 11:57 AM

      Titanfall looks fun as shit

      • yoshimi20 legacy 10 years
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        October 28, 2013 12:02 PM

        Can't wait to see other maps on it, especially with how each map is meant to have it's own game mode. Might be that they play quite differently.

    • Attica Blue legacy 10 years
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      October 28, 2013 12:19 PM

      That is amazing. Although I wonder how it works in a real-life environment where you're sitting around with a bunch of people and, say, some hyperactive kids and everyone is talking at the same time, etc.

    • exigence7 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 28, 2013 12:32 PM

      Techies: Doesn't virtualization make this realistic? If I have a virtual computer going on my computer, I can swap to it and back instantly. Since Microsoft has made the video game and media center sections their own virtual computer, shouldn't what they showed be possible?

      • LoioshDwaggie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 28, 2013 12:39 PM

        Yes, though the hand-offs for groups might be difficult (going from the OS Skype-group context to a game Live Party context). I'm sure MS will get it and do it right. They're the ones who got the party concept working in the first place.

    • feek legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 28, 2013 12:41 PM

      i dont understand why people are so doubtful that this is realistic. they showed it working at the unveiling. it's why i'm way more pumped about the xbox over the ps4.

    • scary_monster legacy 10 years
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      October 28, 2013 6:27 PM

      So anyone can say something to control your Xbox? This will be great for annoying my brother :)

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