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Xbox SmartGlass is a companion application for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles that enables users to connect their mobile devices with their consoles. The Xbox SmartGlass enables users to launch applications, play their music and videos, and control a select number of games and interact with an additional layer of the Xbox's TV settings.
Xbox Play Anywhere, formerly Live Anywhere, is an ongoing initiative by Microsoft Gaming to bring the cross-platform Xbox network (formerly Xbox Live [1]) service to a wide variety of Microsoft platforms and devices, chiefly the Xbox Series X|S, Windows 11, Xbox One, and Windows 10.
The Xbox SmartGlass app provides extended functionality on Xbox One, allowing devices running Windows Phone, Windows 8, iOS and Android to be used as a companion device for Xbox One features, such as powering on the console, a remote control, accessing messages and the Activity Feed, purchasing content, and providing integration with certain ...
The original logo of the Xbox One SmartGlass app. Xbox 360 SmartGlass was originally announced at E3 2012, for Windows 8, Android and iOS.Microsoft demonstrated use cases for the new app within both games and entertainment, including a minimap for Ascend: New Gods, a second screen experience for School of Rock with supplemental content, and Game of Thrones (with interactive maps and family ...
The Xbox Live service is available as both a free and subscription-based service, known as Xbox Live Free [21] and Xbox Live Gold respectively, with several features such as online gaming restricted to the Gold service. Prior to October 2010, the free service was known as Xbox Live Silver. [22]
Yes = A separate subscription (from Xbox Live) to a particular service is required for use. This can be to specific television service providers as well as content providers. Optional = A separate subscription (from Xbox Live) to a particular service adds functionality. No = All features available to all application users.
Xbox Cloud Gaming available countries (December 2023) Xbox Cloud Gaming is a cloud gaming service as part of Xbox offered by Microsoft Gaming. [5] Initially released in beta testing in November 2019, the service later launched for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on September 15, 2020.
The duration from the eighth generation until the start of the ninth was one of the longest in history, having started in 2012 with the release of Nintendo's Wii U.Past generations typically had five-year windows as a result of Moore's law, [9] but Microsoft and Sony instead launched mid-console redesigns, the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro. [10]