Xbox One System Update For October Is Live, With New Avatars, Alexa Support

"The features in this update allow you to use more voice interactions."

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The Xbox Skill feature lets you interact with your Xbox using Alexa or Cortana devices, with a greater degree of precision than the previous Kinect voice commands. As an example, Microsoft says you can tell Alexa to "launch Forza Horizon 4"

Kinect already did that perfectly years ago!!!

If I were a former Kinect developer I would be so angry right now.

The Dolby Vision support is great and a very welcome addition. The voice commands are frivilous, just like they are on any platform, but if it makes things more convenient for some people, that's cool. If you don't like the new avatars, you can stick to the old one. Why do people complain about a completely free update that adds functionality for some people and takes nothing away?

They avatars are a little disappointing after all this waiting for them. A huge let down.

Meh, the options for the avatar app are waaay too few. My avatar looks nothing like me (when my last one was pretty darn close).

I wish Dolby Vision was in games. There's a much better picture with it than the baseline HDR-10 crap.

Honestly, I have two 65 inch 4K tv's. One is just 4K (no HDR) and the other is a Quantum Dot and has all the HDR types except Samsungs new version. I notice a similar picture with just the 4K tv. The HDR takes to much configuration between games (brightness and contrast). My regular 4K tv almost looks like the HDR-10 that games display, just not quite the black level, though sometimes I want to see in shaded areas.

If they implemented a better HDR standard, and make the console display each game evenly, on the hardware level, instead of having to adjust for the game, it would make things much easier.

Your options as a male avatar:

-skinny feminine with no reasonable male hair style options

-child bearing extreme wide hip fat man with feminine face.

-wheelchair nightmare creations.

The avatars look hideous

wow makes you feel good to be an xbox one owner . what a load of pointless tat

No voice recording apps in my house; thanks. Was a real pain to completely disable each Android device's voice recording features, including the 4K TV and even its damned remote.

Good Paper weight !

Xbox live is struggling right now, maybe you don't put out an update on the same say as the second biggest game of the year's release and tie up everyone in the process or something intelligent

Yay! Can’t wait to see all the new and exciting menus Microsoft has added!!

The Dolby Vision HDR streaming support is the big win with this update for me personally. One thing I'd REALLY like to see is Dolby Vision HDR support for 4K physical discs.

I just don't find the voice commands compelling. I didn't back when they were on the Kinect. I don't know if this is just popular with everyone else, but I've never found it that hard to just pick up a controller and press a button to do pretty much the same thing. I suppose it IS a bit of a time saver maybe. You can tell Alexa to start things up while you take a pee or something like that, but it's just not a game changer for me personally.

the xbox on pc experience is so terrible.

Cool. Wonder if I'll have to see "Alexa is not available in your region" for years like I did Cortana? Apparently the region of Canada is too remote and uses too foreign a language to get Cortana to work. Seeing as how Canada is all the way out in North America and we speak the archaic language, English, I can understand the delay.

that's totally the wrong video for this article

Dolby vision? I have an lg OLED so I’m going to test that out when I get home.