Xbox One impression Dashboard, a browser, avatars!

Today, we describe in detail about the console dashboards. Once you have downloaded Day One update, The console will turn on and enter the profile in just a half seconds, which is faster Windows 8 for 15 seconds. For comparison - Xbox 360 included in 17 seconds, and then he had to 1 minute 30 seconds is to connect to a profile in Live (this time depends on the "old" profile, the new profile without the long history are included intimes faster). It also emerged that can simultaneously be in the same profile on 360 and One.

New dashboards - that struck the strongest of all. It consists of three sections - a Pins (left), Home (basic) and Store (right).

The first section is a place where you attach the tiles with games and applications that you need time.

The second section consists of a large central tile (the last open application or game) that flank the following tiles:
- Vertical bar of your profile, when you click on that you get in the total activity of the menu.
- Tiles Snap, which divides the screen into two parts, each of which may run different applications simultaneously. And tile that launches a menu of all games and applications.
- Four tiles of the dynamic games and applications that you run before the fifth and final tile with a game that is in the drive.
Plus they are located to the right of the tile Featured with useful information, which is loaded with clouds. At the moment, there are tips and other assistance.

The third section dashboards - various shops.

Button Xbox Guide It works a little differently. Now there is no mini-dashboards. As consoles have enough memory, pressing this button you'll see all the dashboards in full functionality.If you want to quickly view a message that appears on the screen, press the button and hold it for about a second.So now the problem is gone when you would, say, invite your friends to the party, but accidentally opened a window that appears out of nowhere a new achivki or message.

It is also worth noting that the system remembers your actions, and you can "go back" on those screens and applications that you previously opened using the "B".

To work with the tiles, you can go to it and press the button on it, which was formerly called "Start". It works like pressing the right mouse button on the icon in Windows.Depending on the situation or type of tiles (the game, application, or function), you can expand it to full screen, attached to the Pins, close, watch weight, delete, go to the store, or show all additions.


All the actions of friends are shown in real time. From this menu, you can get to the profile to one or another friend. List of friends made the old fashioned way. At this time, men without avatars. Because of this, it is loaded once and is much faster. Avatars thumbnails with friends Xbox 360 It does not appear on all of the designated site avatars, and for users Xbox One was painted in the new high-resolution.

Microsoft also added a section Followers - these are people who have added you as a friend, and you have them, maybe not yet. "Mutual" friends, as previously called Friends.

Others can be added to Favourites, then they will be put in a special tab. The list can be ordered by him, or those who are currently online.

Reputation is now shown as a half-arches.

All of the recent actions of each individual other displays in the central tab Recent Activity. On the right are the latest by them clips that are loaded on your console almost instantly. The video quality is not great, but there were no huge pixels.


Screen achievements was heavily reworked. Now, you show not only the achivki, but the game, you have spent with a given project.ibid shows time test, which were added to achivku, but they are not. There you can see your progress in games on 360 and PC.
Messages have also changed. Now they are displayed in large tiles, which can be maximized. Good people from your friends list have rushed to congratulate on your purchase One.


Game shop is divided into sectors with complete games, and various additions tops. Section demos yet, but Live It is already one of them - Kinect Sports Rivals. You can also use the code including QR, which are printed along with the usual, so now you can not drive a long codes, and show their version of QR Kinect'u.


All actions can be performed using the Kinect. Surprisingly voice commands Xbox One working almost perfectly. For two nights with One by voice command device misunderstood only 2 or 3 times. In other cases it does and is all true, and, where possible, sorted by category.
For example, if you search for the word "Halo", One I found not only games and video game from Microsoft, but Beyonce album and some movies where titles / descriptions that word.If slots are called the same, the device further calls of Item 1, 2, 3 and so on) is surprising, but all this did not make any pre-calibration. (Although you can do this in the options if desired. You can also customize the appearance of recognition).


In the attached movie ratings Rotten Tomatoes. True lease and purchase of services in Russia do not work, although the application is downloaded normally.
All notices of the injection, messages, and so on are displayed in a special section of dashboards on top next to your avatar.


And of course, Party Chat. The One There are two types of chat rooms - standard and over Skype. In the second case, you can talk with users of Windows (and maybe even PSVITA and cell phones, but we have not tried these options. With Windows 8 tried - it works perfectly - the user receives a message with a postscript "live:" and we can talk through the headset). Standard cross game Party Chat 8 persons has been expanded to chat to ... 32 people! We do not have many friends, even with Xbox One...
A pleasant change - now you can just select the right of all relevant players, and then send an invite at the touch of a button in the menu. Communicate with users via the Xbox 360 can not voice chat, but only through text messages.


Separately want to talk about avatars. Their choice you have prepared a lot of very different - from robots to funny little animals, abstract shapes and pixel art. All are painted in 1080p and look very cool (some of them below).
But if you want to have your own avatar picture of man- Xbox 360, This can be done using the built-in editor.


Some applications, such as player Blu-Ray or Youtube you need to download from the store (they Free).

Reading Blu-Ray and go to the main menu of the film takes place relatively quickly.
Searching categories Youtube It does not work smoothly, but tolerable. VEVO channel is available with all the songs and music videos. At the start you will be pixel video stream, which is automatically and quickly switch to HD, where available.

As with any application, Youtube can be rolled into the main tile dashboards. And then it turned out that running a clip will continue to play and show, but inside the window of the tile. Same thing with the games - they do not freeze and do not pause, and continue to work, but not at full screen. With the included SnapYou can look at the two windows, such as a video Adele and monitor the actions of your friends. How useful is not yet clear.

Internet Explorer 10 It can be accessed from the program menu or Pins. The browser works pretty good, a little playing with analog PS4 the speed of loading pages, but more consistently displaying the page when scrolling. There can be opened 8 tabs (if open more, the first will be erased).
Depending on the weight of the sites, they will or will not restart when switching via bumpers. With the help of a special button on Pade (former button Back), you can call menu search box, and other options. Maximum resolution video on web pages, as in the case of PS4Maybe 720p. 1080p is also not working.

If the game does run, it will run slower and mode Snap, Use it practically impossible. While it does not cause a message when no free space, but the video on web pages will go in as a minimum.


In general, the new dashboards is purely positive emotions. This is definitely a bold step forward on the part of design and functionality, which adds a sense of a new generation of systems.
Of course, Microsoft'u have room to grow and improve that - for example, not all gone freezes when moving on some screens, and I would like to receive adequate and convenient menuViewing files on a hard drive, so hopefully it will all be improved / added in the future with new updates.

Who does that say about the functions on the dashboards Xbox One?


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