Microsoft has started testing a refreshed internet expertise for Xbox Cloud Gaming that appears much more console-like. Xbox Insiders can now check out the preview UI, which incorporates up to date navigation options, loads of new animations, and a refreshed design. All of it looks like a teaser of what’s to return for Xbox consoles within the years forward.
The present Xbox Cloud Gaming interface acquired its last major overhaul almost two years in the past, when Microsoft added the social options and UI you’d usually discover within the Xbox dashboard. This new design makes that present UI really feel even nearer to an Xbox console, due to a wide range of new animations, a brand new library part, and a rounded design.
New animations embody a sliding dashboard interface that glides into view, an animated Xbox icon that lights up and adjustments form, and improved navigation between the totally different elements of the dashboard. These delicate adjustments significantly enhance the Xbox Cloud Gaming navigation expertise, which at the moment looks like an online app loading every part.
“We’re testing a refreshed internet expertise for Xbox Cloud Gaming that lays the muse for accelerating our capacity to construct new experiences for gamers,” says Patrick Siu, principal product supervisor at Xbox. “This preview is a primary take a look at our new internet interface in your browser and allows you to strive the up to date design and product circulation earlier than it’s rolled out broadly.”
The point out of this new UI being the muse for “new experiences” actually feels like Microsoft could properly use this new design in a future Xbox console. Within the meantime, I’m hoping it additionally takes this interface and places it contained in the Xbox app on PC, which is in a lot want of navigation and animation enhancements.
Microsoft is searching for suggestions on this new Xbox Cloud Gaming UI, earlier than it rolls it out to everybody within the coming months. If you wish to strive it out you may head to the brand new https://play.xbox.com/ website and allow the preview options toggle from the settings menu.
