wow so that's Discord running on an Xbox yeah wow the Xbox has had a browser
since 2014 so this isn't exactly new but
it's never had proper support for mouse and keyboard it's never even had full
controller support and most importantly for us it's never supported Hardware
acceleration well with the latest update
the Xbox now gets a full chromium based
Microsoft edge browser that can do everything from watch YouTube videos to
chat in Discord to I mean presumably you
could even stream PlayStation games on your Xbox using PS Now isn't it does
don't they have a browser client y yeah no but no so it's
complicated this is a really fun type of video for me to shoot because basically
one of our writers in this case Alex experiences some new piece of technology
or in this case software figures out all the ins and outs and then I walk onto
set and I get to go through this curated experience as I learn both what's great
about it and what's not so great and I'm super super excited about this one
please don't disappoint me what what what should we do first I mean I want to
go to YouTube obviously Mouse input is
perfectly responsive everything is exactly as I would have expected for all
I can tell other than the cursor obviously looking not very PC like this
is basically just like using a computer wow that that load time though runs it
4K just immediately to be clear there is
a YouTube app for the Xbox but compared to being able to I mean even something
as simple as oh yeah this looks like kind of a cool video for later right
click open a new tab bam just having one these these are like 30 bucks having
this as an accessory to your Xbox could be probably the best $30 you ever spent
on your Xbox being able to just scrub through the video like this rather than
using a controller I mean that you couldn't use a controller moving our
stuff around now one thing that wasn't a great experience on the trackpad is two
finger scrolling oh wait it's working now oh man like the chapter selector
over here there's no way that's in the regular Xbox app can I play games on
neoz one thing that's kind of weird is that IO games seem to hard crash it okay
I'll play Text Twist oh my God I'm going
to play some text twists
oh my big brain figuring out the puzzle immediately broke it apparently okay
well it's working is cash as a thing certainly not oh really oh okay cash as
a check that makes sense let's see if it crashes this time no totally working
okay frog fractions yep oh wow you have to download it it's Flash game and so
much of the web died with the death of Adobe Flash oh do you want another sad
one sure do you think this can run runes scape well you told me it's sad yeah I
kind of spoiled it but so you can't download Java no we've got Java oh
because it's chromium based Y and they have no support for the Java plugin
let's fire up some Google dogs here shall we I'm not a big fan of this
keyboard that oh whoa yeah pops oh
oh can I just disable this large on
screen keyboard oh well it's already disabled okay so this is see it's not
there now yeah that works great this is crazy imagine being like hey Mom I need
an Xbox so I can work on my homework johy get off the Xbox Mom I'm working on
my science project what else should we try uh open up word screw it it's funny
that I'm looking at this going like wow this is so crazy you can do everything
in a browser it's basically Chrome OS like that's foundationally what Chrome
OS is the idea is that you don't really need the OS to do much because all of
your apps and all of your main functionality should be through the
browser and then I can get notifications while I'm working on them about my daily
Quest and monthly Quest let's go back to Discord because the thing that you want
to do in Discord is be able to talk with your friend while you gain yes wow it's
working well the the headset is not working checky check check check check
check no hey he hey heyy it's working what what did you do I have no idea but
it's working here we go we ready we ready oh man I'm gaming like a
professional now hello hello
hey I feel like I feel like how whatever
his face is Belle the guy who's falsely credited with inventing the telephone
you know yeah being on the like the first the first telephone call now
obviously the first thing we're going to want to do now that we're in Discord is
play some Halo um while it's updating we're going to play a different game
Alex God damn it and that's a problem as
soon as I changed tasks Edge went to sleep in the background and the Discord
call dropped super unfortunate also the mic input is now dead again whatever the
reason was for the mic to start or stop working maybe super Xbox ecosystem
immersed people are going to be like oh yeah it's like it's this you just got to change that either way this is not what
I was hoping for there is an app called quarrel that I have on here quarrel and
is this like a third party Discord client
yes hello now this is as far as I've
gotten it I see so much potential here though I
mean we've been saying for so long ever since Microsoft officially added
keyboard mouse support we're like well the Xbox is officially a PC now
obviously as you can see that wasn't the case but between wwp apps and being able
to run anything a Chromium browser could run hopefully in the background at some
point again Microsoft yeah there is endless
potential here just like this endless
spinning bird now did I see you had addicting games.com
open oh come on N64 emulator in
JavaScript your organization turned off access to local files on the computer oh
interesting so Microsoft is running the edge browser within a controlled sandbox
you can go to websites that host their own BIOS and ROM which is 100% illegal
there's there's no way to spin that as legal so the way to legally or like at
least morally um emulate cannot be done
here I'll settle for it I want to experience it can I use a
controller wow that audio though Gamepad is connected yeah oh damn okay Gamepad
is connected every time you press a button Gamepad is connected comes up
twice no way playing Super Mario World
on an Xbox Super illegally please not do
please not do it now tell me something
oh the Chug is real boys there's
different definitions of Intolerable this is definitely in the neighbor of like 40 to 50 milliseconds like it's a
lot but it's playable Tony Hawks pro
skater oh boy um no play now here we go
oh does this one not work was this just uh no it works you just have to play a
lot of wack-a-mole how much you want to bet this is not Flash Player okay let's
try this again oh my God the keyboard is back go away keyboard oh no I clicked to
popup uh it might just be broken I mean maybe it's cuz you have so many browser
Windows open Alex PSX emulator online
okay what's being got for me here emulator games. online wait is this it
or is this a different one it's a different one
oh Alex why did you have so many tabs open on here it's a browser what am I
supposed to do I know but it has a finite amount of memory Alex okay I want
to try play emul emulator. online again without all this crap open in the
background one more shot to impress me here your hot feed.com oh yeah I
definitely want that fine C do PSX
player is it working no I will not press
allow I think it's working yeah if I go
full screen every time I need to press this
it'll just go back from full screen bombard inski here we go I have no idea
what the buttons are hopefully my browser back button is not one of
them it is but if I hold it it should be
fine the analog all gas no breakes oh no the analog stick uh also does this so oh
yeah let's go I'm like a c PSX Pro now going for
the big win here here we go big jump oh
what the controls get super like Twitchy
right around there hey not a perfect experience but it works let's do
something a bit more reasonable so the internet archive MS DOS games I mean
obviously we're going to have to F late night sexy TV show I have no idea what
kind of thing I'm filling out here what is this why does that guy have the most
jacked
sixpack wait is your nipple out oh
wow all right fine I'm playing as Homer then Enter space control shift maybe
it's on the controller I doubt it no the
delete keys used to jump insert used to
attack those are keys I wouldn't have thought to press all right here we go
boys oh my God I can't hear the thing oh
come on okay hold on can I jump and attack I can hey now we're going why am
I beating up this small child wait she has a burger get back here what's her
name again time to play something a little bit newer let's head over to stadia controller linked that worked
immediately Sound Works that was really
easy press anybody button uhoh oh wait oh there it goes oh boy
okay breaking here okay there we go oh
my God this is stressful to watch oh there
it is oh God yeah all right that's quite
enough of that yeah I'd say it was fairly excellent I mean on a good
internet connection the latency is very usable let's go to GeForce now the
drawback of GeForce now is that they have actually that's the biggest
drawback right there oh
bomber Chrome Beta and Safari on iPhone
iPad that's it now something to note is
that even though apparently there's a built-in coupon code functionality in
Microsoft Edge if you wanted to install say honey or you wanted last pass to
manage your credentials or whatever else there's no support for browser
extensions in the Xbox version of edge
so that limits your functionality probably more than you would think like
obviously it's not perfect today but I can see what they're trying to do I see
the vision and I think it's going to be it will be good but if you had file
access you could like edit photos and time I mean even Apple exposes the file
system on iOS now so Microsoft I think will come around and there will be a
little Walled Garden where the browser will be able to you download files or
install extensions and stuff like that I say give them time I'm willing to be
patient with this but a big part of that is that I don't actually rely on my Xbox
as my primary gaming device if I did I might have a lot less patience and I
might wish that it was in a much more complete state today but it isn't and I
don't think it was ever really advertised as such that you'd be able to run GeForce now on your Xbox so it's
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was really cool man the Xbox it's a computer it's a computer