There’s more: Want to scan related game news (events, articles, videos, all in one place)? Leaf through Crytek’s illustrated dissertation (100 pages!) on what inspired the game? Plumb Ryse‘s missing “manual,” which offers additional level-by-level narrative context? You can, but only on SmartGlass, raising the stakes for completionists who can’t live without knowing this stuff. If you bring up the standalone “Collectibles” view, you can see everything differentiated by collectible type and precisely how many you’ve found of each so far. Each collectible includes an instructional videos revealing its location and an unlockable “read more about this” option, like the collectible diary in Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Here, you’ll discover collectibles that appear along a bar in rough proportion to their appearance in a game chapter. Slide over to “Campaign Timeline” and the content shifts from interesting to essential. None of this information is available on the Xbox One itself. Not exactly need-to-know information, but interesting just the same. Let’s run through mine: 15% of my friends have played Ryse (which is to say, 15% of my friends are other members of the press with Xbox Ones), none of my friends have completed the game, 50% have unlocked, 0% have played such-and-such map, one’s played multiplayer, we’ve all launched the game X many times and so forth.
There’s “Ryse by the Numbers,” for instance, a stat aggregation tool you can sweep left or right, Metro-style, to pore over scads of insightful metrics. The companion app to Ryse is a world unto itself, packed with stuff you had no idea was even in the game if all you’ve seen of Ryse is Ryse. The Xbox One multitasks like no one’s business, but SmartGlass is Microsoft recognizing that even with side-by-side features like Snap, sometimes it’s preferable to divide and conquer.īut that’s not why you’re going to want SmartGlass this is: Tap a SmartGlass tile - in this case we’ll focus on Ryse - and you can launch a game on the Xbox One remotely, or if the game’s already running, summon its companion app.
XBOX SMART GLASS FOR MAC TV
It’s all appreciably multiscreen-friendly, and I imagine someone sitting at a desk (like me) or on a couch, a SmartGlass-ready tablet parked near their TV screen or lying in their lap, flipping between activities, checking in with friends and keeping tabs on achievements while simultaneously playing a game or watching a movie.
You can even tap a controller icon at bottom-right and summon a touchscreen version of the Xbox One controller if you just want to swipe the Xbox One’s cursor around from across the room, wielding SmartGlass as a wireless trackpad. If you want to watch game clips you’ve saved to the cloud, they’re a tap away, as are achievements, messages and your Xbox One profile info. If you want to send a friend a message, you just type in the SmartGlass app interface (which is both faster and more accurate than using a gamepad, as you’d expect). To access it, you’ll launch the Xbox One SmartGlass app itself: an interface-within-an-interface that mirrors your Xbox One’s screen, and responds just as fluidly, since it’s rendered natively and not a remote screen-scrape feed.
XBOX SMART GLASS FOR MAC ANDROID
I’ve been tinkering with it on a Surface Pro for the last couple of days (Microsoft plans to support iOS and Android devices, and the apps are available now, but won’t work with Xbox One until November 22, so I wasn’t able to test them). Take the SmartGlass companion app to a game like Crytek’s Ryse: Son of Rome. Xbox One SmartGlass, by contrast, offers content that you can’t access on the Xbox One at all. You can also remotely power the system up or down, which is fun for impressing kids, but glorified TV remote turf.
XBOX SMART GLASS FOR MAC PS4
The PS4 app, helpful as it can be, is basically an online portal to the PlayStation Network that lets you view friends, browse Sony’s PlayStation Store (a link that brings up your browser) or thumb through Trophies. I was expecting something more like Sony’s PlayStation 4 app from SmartGlass, to be honest. Follow get it: With Xbox One SmartGlass, Microsoft wants to be the Prima of hybrid tablets, the Piggyback Interactive of digital travelogues, the GameFAQs of collectible vade mecums.
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