{"id":88199,"date":"2019-03-13T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338592"},"modified":"2019-03-13T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:45:00","slug":"new-microsoft-app-lets-users-stream-pc-games-to-an-xbox-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/new-microsoft-app-lets-users-stream-pc-games-to-an-xbox-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft app lets users stream PC games to an Xbox One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox One users can now stream PC games to the console through the recently updated Wireless Display app.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Wireless Display app creates a&nbsp;connection between a PC and the Xbox One, where users&nbsp;can cast to the console using the Windows key and&nbsp;P on a keyboard (a little similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317854\/New_Steam_Link_app_allows_players_to_stream_Steam_games_to_mobile.php\">Steam Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft has been&nbsp;working on streaming PC games to the Xbox One for quite some time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/328130\/Microsoft_unveils_Project_xCloud_game_streaming_technology.php\">Project xCloud<\/a>, this could be a good method to play Steam titles specifically on the console.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/3\/13\/18263513\/microsoft-xbox-one-pc-games-support-streaming-wireless-display-app-feature\">The Verge<\/a>,&nbsp;Microsoft\u2019s Wireless Display app has been available to testers for months under several different names, previously known as&nbsp;Connect on Windows.&nbsp;It first started out as an app for the Surface Hub (a brand of interactive whiteboard developed by the company).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that the app doesn&#8217;t support keyboard and mouse input, so Xbox One users&nbsp;won&#8217;t be able to stream PC&nbsp;games using traditional inputs, but it may be implemented&nbsp;in the future since Microsoft added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/330466\/Mouse_and_keyboard_support_arriving_on_Xbox_One_this_week.php\">keyboard and mouse support for&nbsp;the console last year.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox One users can now stream PC games to the console through the recently updated Wireless Display app.&nbsp; Microsoft\u2019s Wireless Display app creates a&nbsp;connection between a PC and the Xbox One, where users&nbsp;can cast to the console using the Windows key and&nbsp;P on a keyboard (a little similar to the Steam Link). While Microsoft has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}