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Xbox One: starts releasing April update

Microsoft announced that the next few hours users Xbox One will begin to receive the new update, which introduces several novelty as the eagerly awaited friends online notification. As always it is a rolling update , released a little at a time and you might not receive the same time other users: some have first, others later. Whoever wants it first is still good to take the console off quick launch mode, so that downloading can take place while it is on standby.

We leave you with a list of all the novelties introduced with this update:

  • Upgrade and save games and app. A progress bar will now display the condition of bailouts . It will be easier to understand than when a games and app are updating or has been updated recently.

  • Friends management improvements. We will alert notifications when our friends connect online. You can enable them to all friends, only the Favorites or keep them totally disabled. Also in the friends list now you can identify those who are participating in multiplayer sessions.

  • Improvements to Kinect. The final touches have been made to the procedures for the recognition of gestures to reduce cases where the Kinect exchanges other items for our hands.

  • Improvements to the quality of GameDVR. It was improved the compression algorithm to ensure that registered and shared movies have better quality.
  • 50 Hz Support for Blu-ray movies. The films recorded natively in 50 Hz will not more problems. In the next few days will be updated app also Blu-ray player to finish these improvements.

  • Controller firmware Update. A new update to the Xbox controller One (run from the settings screen) will reduce noise in the headset audio transmission and improve wireless connectivity.

  • Automatic restart after an update and refresh button. These changes will be usable only by the next update: If you have the console in stand-by, after downloading an update of your system will restart by itself to apply it and then shut off automatically, eliminating the need to do so manually. Also for those who don't want to wait for the rolling update, there will be a button to download a new upgrade.