Xbox One's Snap mode tested in new video
It appears there are some Xbox One consoles out in the wild. The Verge's Tom Warren appears to have gotten his hands on one, and promptly tested its multitasking ability.
It appears there are some Xbox One consoles out in the wild. The Verge's Tom Warren appears to have gotten his hands on one, and promptly started to test the console's multitasking ability through Snap. With Snap, you'll be able to pin various apps to the side of the TV screen, all while your game is running. Unfortunately, without being signed into Xbox Live, much of the functionality is disabled, but this video does a good job of showing how Xbox One excels at running multiple programs at once.
Also not used in this video: Kinect voice recognition. Warren seems content on using his controller for Snap features, but you should also be able to use voice commands to do things like "Xbox, Snap Internet Explorer."
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It appears there are some Xbox One consoles out in the wild. The Verge's Tom Warren appears to have gotten his hands on one, and promptly tested its multitasking ability.-
Looks nice. Takes up valuable gpu cycles though.
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I hear it wastes some of its Ghz watching you sleep.
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I thought the no MP3 thing was for the PS4?
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/yes-the-xbox-one-can-play-cds-and-will-support-dlna-streaming-
Well, sort of. Like it says, unless you use an approved device, a CD (lol), or have Xbox Music Pass, you can't on XB1. PS4 I think you can only do it with their music subscription. With YouTube you wouldn't have to use another device or anything, just snap youtube in and go for it.
I think it's dumb you can't just import your music and play it in the background. I guess it's their way of trying to funnel people into their respective music subs.-
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The only one of those that makes sense to me is walkthrough.
Snap to me really only makes a ton of sense if you really utilize the TV stuff, which I just may. When I start to think of it that way its cool. I won't skype while I game, but I'll def do it during the basektball game or a show that my friends and I both watch. If I were into fantasy football I can see it also being a thing to use snap then.-
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people use skype as their phone? and you use video calling as your main method of conversation?
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it'd be cool if you could snap half and half like windows 8, but i guess games would also have to support 4:3 for that to work any good
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seems more useful when you're watching TV, so you can have a twitter feed going, or some interaction with the nfl games
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I would be honestly amazed if they didn't. Of course, regardless of power level, I have no interest in confining high-powered titles to a phone screen. I just don't see the point. In the same way, I wouldn't watch a movie like Gravity, or Avatar, on a phone, regardless of fidelity.
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You're talking about a performance difference on the order of 25-35x between the new iPhone 5s and the new consoles. Add to that the huge thermal and power constraints of a phone... I think it's possible phones will match the Xbox/PS4's power in their lifetimes, but I'm not sure it's that clear cut.
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And while doing it the battery will get so hot it melts through your hand and drops to the ground while burning a phone sized hole down to the core of the earth killing us all.
I think something major is going to need to change in battery and phone thermal design before that is a reality.-
I wouldn't worry about the battery melting. They usually just explode and burn violently when thermal runaway happens. No need to worry about China syndrome!
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You think? I mean, I know hardware cycles should be accelerating, but the generation "ending" next week is the longest we've had, not the shortest. Shouldn't console generations be getting shorter, not longer, if that prediction is accurate?
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I think this will be the last console cycle. In a few years I'm thinking the Android driven devices will have enough graphical power to play most of the stuff people want to play. Home entertainment will probably look a lot more like the current situation with phones and tablets. If the Playstation and Xbox brands continue, I think they will be very different kinds of products.
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Snappy comeback...
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I'm sure there will be plenty of people using this to watch walkthroughs on youtube or read a strategy guide while they play. You could also screw around with friends and bring up their stream (XB1 doesn't stream right? btu if they had the hardware for it) and view their stream while in game.
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Oh, my mistake then. That's even better, it's almost a throw back to having people over at your house with 2 TVs setup to play games side by side.
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That's fair, I would probably side with you if I did this myself, guess we'll have to wait and see what people come up with.
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Yeah, now that I've got a portable browser in my pocket at all times, I can't imagine *ever* using browser functions on a TV. Text is just too small and half the shit (a guess, based on this generation) won't work right/functionally in a console-based browser anyway.
I'm not sure I've ever used a console-based browser and thought it was worth the trouble (save pre-iPhone/tablet, when my PC was busted, then I'd use it).
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God yes. So sick of reading about comparisons of mhz and memory, and blah blah blah.
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