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Nsanity on 23 October 2012

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Xbox SmartGlass, which allows you to control your console and Xbox Live content using your smartphone or tablet, will go live this week.

 

As detailed on Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb’s blog, the Xbox 360 dashboard update in the process of rolling out to end users does in fact enable support for SmartGlass. The feature won’t be activated until Windows 8 goes live though, on October 26.

SmartGlass is a free downloadable app which powers “key foundational experiences for interacting with your Xbox 360, such as dashboard and app navigation and Internet Explorer control, like text input, scrolling and pinch and zoom”, and works with Xbox Video and Music.

The following games, apps and service will support the feature:

  • Games:
    - Ascend
    - Dance Central 3
    - Forza Horizon
    - Halo Waypoint
    - Home Run Stars
    - Karaoke
    - Kinect Sesame Street TV
    - Prima Games
  • Sports:
    - ESPN
    - NBA Game Time
    - UFC
  • Entertainment Apps:
    - Elections 2012
    - HBO GO
    - MSN
    - NBC News
    - NOW TV
    - Slacker Radio
    - TODAY
    - Univision


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Zappykins on 23 October 2012

I'm excited and hope it's cool. It could be really cool.

Although, shouldn't Netflix support it? Also, good new we are getting Slacker Radio.



 

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the2real4mafol on 23 October 2012

Sounds cool but i still don't really understand what Xbox smart glass is for?



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selnor on 23 October 2012

Being able to control IE via Smartglass is gonna be great. Like having a mouse and keyboard in your lap.

Wont be long now till my Surface RT arrives.



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selnor on 23 October 2012
Nsanity said:

Thats incredible. Truly incredible.



JWeinCom on 23 October 2012

Microsoft hasn't said anything about this since E3. They don't seem to have that much confidence in it.

It will be a neat extra, but nothing really game changing.



disolitude on 23 October 2012
JWeinCom said:
Microsoft hasn't said anything about this since E3. They don't seem to have that much confidence in it.

It will be a neat extra, but nothing really game changing.


It won't be game changing but it's kind hard to have a game changing experience for a 7 year old console. Nextbox however may bring forward a game changer using this technology.

Something like this isn't easy to pull off. My company has created these companion apps before, and the work involved to get just 1 show, game or app to work in sync on two screens is quite challenging. 



maximrace on 23 October 2012

Now let's see how it'll be supported here in mainland europe ;)



-Newcloud- on 23 October 2012

Is it true that smartglass won't be on ipad/other tables for a few mouths after release?