To access it, you’ll launch the Xbox One SmartGlass app itself: an interface-within-an-interface that mirrors your Xbox One’s screen, and responds just as fluidly, since it’s rendered natively and not a remote screen-scrape feed. I’ve been tinkering with it on a Surface Pro for the last couple of days (Microsoft plans to support iOS and Android devices, and the apps are available now, but won’t work with Xbox One until November 22, so I wasn’t able to test them). Take the SmartGlass companion app to a game like Crytek’s Ryse: Son of Rome. Xbox One SmartGlass, by contrast, offers content that you can’t access on the Xbox One at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can also remotely power the system up or down, which is fun for impressing kids, but glorified TV remote turf. The PS4 app, helpful as it can be, is basically an online portal to the PlayStation Network that lets you view friends, browse Sony’s PlayStation Store (a link that brings up your browser) or thumb through Trophies. I was expecting something more like Sony’s PlayStation 4 app from SmartGlass, to be honest. Follow get it: With Xbox One SmartGlass, Microsoft wants to be the Prima of hybrid tablets, the Piggyback Interactive of digital travelogues, the GameFAQs of collectible vade mecums.
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