Microsoft will release Xbox SmartGlass for Windows 8, Windows RT, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone on Friday, October 26,according to Xbox’s Major Nelson.
Xbox SmartGlass is Microsoft’s second-screen app for games, movies, and apps on the Xbox 360. It will bring new gameplay options for games and gives users more information on TV shows or movies while they watch them on the Xbox itself. The app will work with almost any mobile device, but users will have to wait until the Windows 8 and Windows RT release to use it.
Not every game will use SmartGlass, with just eight games launching in the next few coming months. Those games include Halo Waypoint, Forza Horizons, and Dance Central 3. It’s not clear how each game will use the service, but according to The Verge Dance Central 3 will use the app as a sort of playlist selection tool.
In Dance Central 3 a player can use a SmartGlass-enabled device to create a playlist of songs for their friends to dance to. It makes it easy to collaborate on playlists and to create them without a lot of awkward hand motions.
Sports apps like ESPN, NBA Game Time, and UFC will also use the app. Sports apps can use SmartGlass to show users realtime information on athletes in current games or matches. Or it could provide news or league updates without distracting from the action on screen.
Other apps that will use SmartGlass include NBC News, HBO GO, Elections 2012, Slacker Radio, and MSN. AT E3 Microsoft used HBO GO as an example to show that SmartGlass can offer guides for shows like Game of Thrones which follows many different characters, each in a different area of the world.
Why did you leave Windows Phone out of the title? You faggot cock suckers.
Good point!
WOW! I didn’t know they let children leave comments here! Answer: Maybe because the majority of the populous is up to date and doesn’t use windows phones because they are lame!
Hey wasn’t even using a windows phone it was a S3
Probably because most people with an IQ higher than their age had already figured that a microsoft product that links wirelessly with the xbox was going to be on a windows phone without it having to be explained.
Because they’re shit!
Because they are shit!
What a dumb ass you must be. Lol
I didnt know They let children write articles lol
Looking forward to the full integration for android and iOS systems for smartglass …can’t wait…
This is probably the next best thing since Kinect.. Also no one uses Windows phones unless they never had a laptop or desktop lol.
Your wrong dude, smart glass for iOS and android won’t be here till early next year got to get your facts straight
“D” is absolutely right. Several other sites are saying early 2013 for Android and iOS.
…lol playing with it now
On what device?
s3
And its almost good enough to make me consider buying a surface…
Your wrong it came out on android Friday dumbass
I guess they released it today :D https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.smartglass
Downloading and using it! So neat! Android Razr.
Da fuck?!!!?!??? Why would Microsoft leave the droid bionic incompatible????!!!!!???
I’ve been waiting since E3!!!!!
Yea it won’t work with the bionic… Wtf? There has to be a way around it.
I already do all this with my ipad with directv. It’s so addicting.