Xbox One Insider Dashboard OS Previews [2016]

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Since our preview/beta posts were going into the old news thread I figured I'd start a new thread now that's it's closed.

Here's the latest on the March Preview that has already gone out to Preview members...


– Purchase Xbox 360 Backward Compatible games on Xbox One: Fans have spent more than 30 million hours playing Xbox 360 games on Xbox One and so it’s natural that being able to purchase Xbox 360 Backward Compatible games on Xbox One ranks as one of your top requests. With this update, you’ll be able to do so! Find and purchase Xbox 360 Backward Compatible games the same way you would Xbox One titles and, once purchased, Xbox 360 Backward Compatible content will automatically download to your Xbox One and be ready to play!

– Include Party Chat in Twitch broadcasts: A top voted-for feature on Xbox Feedback, Xbox One Preview members will be able to broadcast Party Chat when using the Twitch app. If you are broadcasting from your console and in a party, you can invite other people to include their chat audio in your broadcast. If a member of your party declines, they’ll still be able to chat in the party; they just won’t be heard in the broadcast. Additionally, as the party leader, you have the option to mute a party member’s chat audio, even if they opted-in. You can also include party members on Windows 10 PCs in your Twitch broadcast.

– Output your Party Chat to headset and speakers simultaneously:
Xbox One Preview members will be able to select their preference for where Party Chat audio is heard: their headset, speakers, or both. To do this, go to Settings – Display & Sounds – Volume.

– Customizable Game DVR recording length: Based on Xbox Feedback, it’s clear that fans want to be able to configure the length of their Game DVR recordings. Currently, Game DVR recording is fixed to a 30 second duration. With this update, Xbox One Preview members can adjust the recording length to 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 45 seconds, 1 minute, 3 minutes or 5 minutes. To change the preferences, visit Settings – Preferences – Game DVR & streaming.

– Track Achievement progress in the Xbox One guide: We’re making it easier to access your Achievements by including them in the Xbox One guide. In the new Achievements area you’ll find a quick link to see all of your Achievements and you’ll be able to track your Achievement progress in real time directly in the guide, without having to snap a separate Achievements app.

– Video playback directly in the Xbox One Activity Feed: We’ve made improvements to video playback in the Xbox One Activity Feed. Xbox One Preview members will be able to play an entire video inline rather than having to leave their feed to launch it. You can even ‘like’ the video while previewing it by pressing X. Preview members will also enjoy new pause, restart, and full-screen playback options, when they do choose to launch a video from their Activity Feed.

– 16-person Party Chat: Last fall, we expanded Party Chat to enable 12-person Parties on Xbox One and the Xbox app. This feature has been very popular with the community, so now we’re enabling 16-person Parties across both Xbox One Preview and the Xbox app (beta) starting today.

– Xbox 360 Achievements in Xbox One and Xbox app Activity Feeds: Starting this month for both Xbox One Preview and Xbox app (beta) participants, Xbox 360 Achievements will automatically post to your console and Windows 10 PC Activity Feeds. As with Xbox One game Achievements, the Xbox 360 Achievement graphic will feature a description of the Achievement, the game you earned it from, and the Gamerscore associated with it.

– Follow web links and YouTube videos from Game Hubs: Community managers of Game Hubs will now be able to populate Game Hubs with web and YouTube hyperlinks, making the Game Hubs experience even more interactive and engaging for gamers. For Xbox One Preview members, web links will display in a browser via the Edge app and YouTube links will open in the YouTube app. For the Xbox app (beta), links will open in your default web browser. As with any other item in your Activity Feed, you can caption, like, comment on, and share these links.

– Compare your Avatars: In Xbox One Preview shortly and releasing to the Xbox Avatars app later this month, you’ll be able to compare your Avatar with your friends’ Avatars. You can click through on a specific friend’s Avatar; preview their Avatar’s clothing, accessories and props on your Avatar; and also see how you can purchase or earn the items yourself. Using the ‘Compare Avatars’ feature will help you customize your Avatar leveraging the best of all your friends’ outfits! You can also compare your Avatar with anyone else’s in the Xbox Live community – just select ‘Compare Avatars’ when you are viewing another member’s profile.

– Reputation rating interface changes: The Xbox Live community is comprised overwhelmingly of players with positive reputations, and so, the vast majority of profiles are rated ‘good.’ As a result, we are changing our reputation interface to draw attention only to players who have been rated ‘needs work’ or ‘avoid me’. For Xbox One Preview and Xbox app (beta) members, ‘good’ players’ profiles will no longer feature a reputation gauge, however, gamers whose profiles are tagged ‘needs work’ or ‘avoid me’ will continue to feature the reputation flag.

http://majornelson.com/2016/03/01/c...6-person-party-chat-and-more/?linkId=21790367

I received my update last night. Kinda surprised me since I never got the February update until a week or so ago.

Love that they finally put the Achievements in the Quick Guide. Really cool it keeps track how much you've progressed since you last looked at it. Purchasing 360 games from the Store will be nice, but it wasn't working last night when I checked. Maybe it's working now. Pretty sizable update. Only large updates left are Cortana, OTA Tuner DVR & background music. Will be interesting to see what they bring out during GDC & E3.

Tommy McClain
 
Anniversary update hitting preview in Late May early June. Looks like we're getting something resembling a quarterly update vs the monthly updates before. I guess after having a pretty rapid implementation of features to bring back a lot of the stuff from 360, and improve the general usability, they're slowing things down and doing major updates.

https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/719896035502362624
 
Yeah, there have been no monthly updates for April at all so far. I was wondering if they were actually trying to fix all the legit bugs now, such as tv stuttering like crazy, party chat randomly dropping, or achievements not unlocking or stuck in unlocking state ever since NXOE Win10 OS update.
 
Im just going off what the majority of the preview forums are talking about. Those are all the hot topics.

I don't have the TV stutter issue because I removed the xbox console from all of my tv setups sometime around December. It was that amazingly shity ever since end of October. December was the last straw when even more didnt work and required resetting the STB to get xbox to unfuck the hdmi detection. I keep tabs on the TV issues, but the other posters who encountered the issues around the same time I do still have the same issues day in and day out.

It wasnt until the last day or two that xbox official developers actually posted that they think the issue is with the switchover to the Win10 OS and now they have a few things they want to try. No shit it's the underlying changes, the community has only been reporting the issues since the change to win10 os. It's as if they dont trust the thousands of preview users filing reports on how utterly unusable the system is. This is why the community has basically said "fuck xbox for tv watching", they're fed up with being ignored or treated like the issues reported aren't real.
 
The problem with forums is you never know how representative of the overall group is. I'm in the preview, but I never even look at the forums because I never encounter bugs.
 
Yeah, I didn't go into the forums until I kept reporting the same issue for 2 weeks straight. I then discovered some threads that were into the several hundred posts and nearing a hundred pages or so with many different users from different markets having issues.

Hopefully the next big push will address all those hot button issues in addition to providing new functionality.
 
I've gotten the impression the monthly Xbox One updates are more about improving the consoles image than actually improving the usability of the console. I mean sure some useful stuff has been added, but it's still probably the glitchy console I have ever owned. The anniversary update will no doubt introduce a bunch of other issues.
 
I've gotten the impression the monthly Xbox One updates are more about improving the consoles image than actually improving the usability of the console. I mean sure some useful stuff has been added, but it's still probably the glitchy console I have ever owned. The anniversary update will no doubt introduce a bunch of other issues.

Experience may vary. I've had little to no glitches, with the exception of a few bugs in beta releases.
 
Are you sure you don't have NAT issues if you have parties dropping? I've never actually seen anyone get kicked from a party since I bought the Xbox One, with the exception of people that were having ISP issues.

Edit:
I don't have the stuttering issue, but I guess it's being worked on.
https://twitter.com/XboxQwik/status/685183761089040384

After the update I had the strange issue that if I entered the party app/sublist through the dock itself it would throw me out of the party completely(probably a crash). Then I noticed that the community side/information seem to lack or sort of degrading. I couldn't even find anybody anymore but I could still play online and in a party if I didn't "touch" party itself. I also lost notification/messages.

Deleting/Recreating Account+Hardreset didn't help either.

Needed a Console firmware reset/redownload to fix this ugly condition. Luckily I could keep all the content on the HD:)
 
Anybody else get the latest preview released on Monday? It now has Cortana support, remodeled "My Games & Apps" & remodeled Store. Those are biggest changes, but there are more. Cortana is cool & it's been a little hard to remember to not use "Xbox <command>", but so far it seems more versatile. I suspect UWA & background music support coming in the Anniversary update to be announced next week, but it looks like the USB TV tuner is no longer getting DVR support...

"After careful consideration, we've decided to put development of DVR for Over-the-Air TV on hold to focus our attention on launching new, higher fan-requested gaming experiences across Xbox One and Windows 10," revealed a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. "We're always listening to fan feedback and we look forward to bringing more requested experiences on Xbox One, Windows 10 and Xbox Live this year."

;(

Tommy McClain
 
I'm on the new preview. I didnt switch to "Hey Cortana" yet because that phrase is twice the syllables as "xbox".

As for the lack of DVR for Usb tuner, I suspect its because the issues they're still having with getting HDMI IN working without stutter or lag and they will be dropping the TV aspect going forward and they dont want to spend time in areas where they dont have a clue. :(
 
I should be getting the update soon. Cortana looks a lot more useful than the default local voice commands, and it also works over the headset mic, supposedly.
 
I didn't get the update yet. @BRiT, You can just say "Cortana" instead of "Hey Cortana" at least according to GAF. It's one more syllable than Xbox, but at least it's universal while adding functionality like using voice to start a party.
 
I didn't get the update yet. @BRiT, You can just say "Cortana" instead of "Hey Cortana" at least according to GAF. It's one more syllable than Xbox, but at least it's universal while adding functionality like using voice to start a party.

Alright, thats better.

I think this will draw @Alstrong to upgrade, just so he can say "Cortana On" and get a reaction.
 
You're also supposed to be able to issue commands in many ways, so you don't need to use perfect syntax. For instance right now you have to say, "Xbox, go to Netflix", where with cortana you should be able to say, "... start netflix," or, "... play netflix," or, "... Netflix" etc.
 
Personally I feel the lack of DVR is due to poor sales of the tuner more so than anything going wonky with HDMI-In. But you're right they maybe slowly phasing out live TV features, especially if they're making a Roku/FireTV-type device. They may be going all-in on the video streaming market instead of the Cable/Satellite/OTA market.

I should be getting the update soon. Cortana looks a lot more useful than the default local voice commands, and it also works over the headset mic, supposedly.

Yeah it works with headset. I used a few times, but personally I prefer Kinect. I know a lot of people don't have it. So it's good they give a choice.

Tommy McClain
 
I'm on the new preview. I didnt switch to "Hey Cortana" yet because that phrase is twice the syllables as "xbox".

As for the lack of DVR for Usb tuner, I suspect its because the issues they're still having with getting HDMI IN working without stutter or lag and they will be dropping the TV aspect going forward and they dont want to spend time in areas where they dont have a clue. :(

That makes me very sad. TV integration and voice commands and gesture related controls were the only reason I even bothered to jump in on this generation of consoles.

Regards,
SB
 
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