"With the Xbox One Streaming app, you can play your Xbox One games directly on your Oculus Rift. Connect to your console via the app and watch your games come to life on a huge virtual screen in three immersive virtual theatres. Now you can expand your library of VR games with your favourite Xbox One titles, including Xbox 360 games that are playable on Xbox One. Xbox One Streaming requires your Xbox One console to be connected to the same network as your home PC. "

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1266881563371842/

Interesting addition to the ecosystem, didn't even realise this integration was being worked on.]

edit: some articles on it

http://news.xbox.com/2016/11/22/xbox-one-game-streaming-coming-windows-10-pcs-oculus-rift/

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/12/13922052/microsoft-xbox-one-oculus-rift-streaming-app

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This is the feature that got laughed at during E3...Probably because it requires at least $1400 in hardware just to play a blurrier version of your Xbox games.

I certainly wouldn't buy an Oculus for this (or a PS VR either, both are silly prices), but for those going down the oculus path already it is a huge boost.

As someone who owns a PSVR that can play 2D PS4 (and Xbox One and Wii U) games. It's not a huge thing. It's cool to able to play them without taking up a TV, but it's a generally worse experience than playing on a decent TV. So it's neat, but probably the least interesting thing you can do with a VR headset.

I thought the same about streaming Xbox games to my PC too, suprisingly I find myself doing that more often then using my TV due to pure convenience even though the experience is better on my 60 inch TV sitting in my leather recliner in front of it. I imagine for Oculus owners some of that will play a factor too, though personally I haven't seen anything that justifies the purchase of any of the available VR systems for me.

That's fair. I'm sure some people will find this to be a big deal for them, but I think it's too limited to really be a major feature.

So... This creates a virtual living room where you can play your Xbox One games, instead of actually playing them in your living room, with better quality? I mean, it's cool if your living room sucks, but other than that, it seems cool but useless and definitely not something I'd ever want to use. Am I missing something here?

Yes, streaming to PC is more convenient as you have everything else right at your finger tips. Streaming to VR is the opposite, less convenient. You're still isolated for no good reason with worse quality picture and harder to read text since the material isn't designed for lower res displays.

I have PSVR, used it to play a bit of Life is Strange and watched 1 movie with it, then that novelty was gone. VR headsets just aren't very good personal viewers, not for 360 videos, nor 3D videos either. The res is barely enough to make full field of view real time 3D graphics look good. Drop to 24fps for video, or 30fps games on there, and the low framerate sticks out like a sore thumb on those low persistence screens.

Since you already need a PC for this, just keep streaming to the PC. Unless you know a scenario where the monitor is in use by someone else and you can use streaming to OR as a background task?

Theatre mode with VR headsets is kind of an obligatory feature. But it in no way could be regarded as justification for spending that kind of money. If you have a headset for actual VR purposes, then sure this is a good option for if the headset is the only screen available to you for playing Xb one games.

It sounds like this is streaming to your PC, using OR as the PC output, so it's not OR directly connecting to Xb one. And this is for Xb one og and Xb one S right? Scorpio won't be reliant on any PC connection for any headset functions.