Microsoft has demonstrated some of the capabilities of its game console Xbox One: voice control and multitasking.

In a short video demonstrated the possibility of the console to respond to voice commands by which are recognized by the controller Kinect. The user can enable or disable the device, run games and applications, switching between applications, to give commands in games (for example, record a video of the gameplay and share it through social services). It also demonstrates their console to multitask. For example, similar to OS Windows 8.1, you can arrange two windows on the screen: the browser and the TV. As part of the demonstration video execute commands and switching between different applications is carried out without any significant delays.

Recall the official release of the console Microsoft Xbox One has to take place on November 22.

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As previously reported, Microsoft after the official announcement of the console Xbox One announced its intention to improve its hardware.

Then it was planned to increase the frequency of the GPU, to equalize the graphics performance to that of the PlayStation 4, as well as increase the amount of RAM.

As the representative of Microsoft, the company is now actively the process of internal testing Xbox One. Daily releases new build of the operating system console containing certain improvements. As for the graphics, then after the official announcement of the Xbox One, it has undergone some changes. So, it is reported to increase the GPU frequency from 800 MHz to 853 MHz. Also, have developed a new graphics driver. In Microsoft has not reported any performance gains provided these improvements.

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Let’s remind, during the official announcement of the console, Xbox One, Microsoft stated the possibility to start playing before the end of the installation of games, distributed on disks. However, earlier did not specify whether the same option is available for games downloaded from Xbox Live.

It should be noted that the competing consoles – Sony PlayStation 4 – also declared the possibility to start the game after loading process only part of the game. In addition, users can run 4 PlayStation game even in the process of mounting of the drive console.

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