Yesterday, Xbox Live’s Major Nelson and Richard Irving from the Xbox engineering team went over the August Xbox App on Windows 10, which included some smart and necessary additions.
Firstly, is the ability to now stream games from your Xbox One to the Xbox App on Windows 10 in glorious 1080p and 60 frames-per-second. The ability to to stream in 1080p at 60-frames-per-second to the Xbox App on Windows 10 is entirely up to your in home connection. Both Major Nelson and Richard Irving point out the feature can work using a wireless connection, but is best while using a wired connection, because the feature is so bandwidth hungry.
In addition to streaming, the ability to compare achievements to friends on your Xbox Live friends list, a recent played games list, revamp to the way games are organized within the my games tab (it smartly includes games bought outside of the Xbox ecosystem in the library), and improvements to the friends list that make sending messages and party invites were included in the August Xbox App on Windows 10 update.
Before the video ends Richard Irving ensures that further updates will be coming to the Xbox App on Windows 10 and it will continuously grow alongside the Xbox One. And as off right now I am really impressed with how the Xbox App on Windows 10 has helped me stay in-touch with friends not playing on PC by using the cross-platform party chat, albeit, I don’t see anything within the app that would make it replace Steam.
The update is live now.
