Xbox One April update improves friend notifications, voice commands

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As detailed by Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb, Xbox Live Director of Programming, the April Xbox update focuses on four areas of improvement. The first of these is Xbox One's GameDVR. By improving compression algorithms, Xbox One users will capture the last 30 seconds of gameplay in better quality video when they say, "Xbox, record that!" Helping ease the process of not just using the GameDVR and other voice-activated features, the update also aims to improve both Kinect voice and motion commands.

Most significant to online multiplayer users, the April update will also introduce friend notifications. Messages will pop up when friends sign onto Xbox Live and users will see what multiplayer games they're playing in their friends list. These changes bring Xbox One closer to the Xbox 360's Xbox Live experience. As with the party chat features introduced in the March update, friend notifications have been a regularly requested feature.

Xbox One's final April interface tweaks are game save and app update status notifications. Saving a game will now bring up a progress bar to show when the save is complete. Users will also be able to "easily tell what games or apps are being updated," though Hryb doesn't expand on how they will be able to tell what's been updated.

Starting Tuesday, potential testers will be contacted through Xbox Live to put these new features through their paces. More testers will be contacted before the update is released in April. In teasing other features for future updates, Microsoft said it hopes to include external hard drive storage support soon.

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/18/xbox-one-april-update-improves-friend-notifications-voice-comma/

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UnbindPosted:

voice commands are nice however is it really needed? It is cool but lets be honest its just an other thing that didnt need to be there.

InvictusPosted:

NBC Thank god! it's quite annoying when you don't know when a friend logs on


I know but it's kind of good though because you don't get interrupted.

InvictusPosted:

This update really made an impact on the xbox one.

InvictusPosted:

Kopa voice commands thank god they were bad.


They were it was times i would say stop listening and it goes to disney channel.

InvictusPosted:

I can't wait for this update.
I've been waiting on this for a long time.

DanimalsPosted:

Gossip Finally I will know when my friends get on! This should have been implemented from the jump.


a lot of the updates that have came out should have been fixed before release but luckily they are fixing them now and not leaving us hanging

KopaPosted:

voice commands thank god they were bad.

GossipPosted:

Finally I will know when my friends get on! This should have been implemented from the jump.

TravitorPosted:

DJSLobbies
Kex
NBC Thank god! it's quite annoying when you don't know when a friend logs on


Pretty silly how they didn't have that implemented already, same with PS4.
Both previous consoles had it.


Yeah i dont understand why they didnt have it anyway as the xbox 360 did


it was annoying so many users such as me, but they decided to put it in from community feedback.

-DanPosted:

Kex
NBC Thank god! it's quite annoying when you don't know when a friend logs on


Pretty silly how they didn't have that implemented already, same with PS4.
Both previous consoles had it.


Yeah i dont understand why they didnt have it anyway as the xbox 360 did