Xbox One Update Releasing this week

<p>Earlier this week&comma; Major Nelson reported on his <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;majornelson&period;com&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;14&sol;new-xbox-one-system-update-begins-rolling-out-tonight&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">blog<&sol;a> that Microsoft would start rolling out the next Xbox One update to it&&num;8217&semi;s users&period; Major Nelson and the crew at Microsoft are appreciative to the Xbox Live members who contributed feedback to help shape the development of this system update&period; In the future&comma; they will look to expand the preview program&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So what is included in this update&comma; you ask&quest; Below are the list of features that should roll out to your system this week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Improvements to My Games and Apps&period; There will now be a progress bar which will tell you the status of your game saves&period; There will also be a section under My Games and Apps that will tell you what games are updating and which other ones were recently updated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An essential feature of the Xbox 360 was a notification when a friend came online&period; For some reason&comma; Microsoft did not include this &&num;8216&semi;no brainer&&num;8217&semi; of a feature at launch&period; It now looks like they are taking the appropriate steps to correct this oversight by having a notification pop-up when favorites and friends sign in to Xbox Live&period; Also&comma; they have added a level of detail to show you what friends of yours are engaged in multiplayer matches&period; &lpar;Note&colon; I am enrolled in the preview and have only seen notifications for Favorites&comma; not all friends&period;&rpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;xbox-one&lowbar;controller&lowbar;bagogames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;" wp-image-60888 alignright" alt&equals;"xbox-one&lowbar;controller&lowbar;bagogames" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;xbox-one&lowbar;controller&lowbar;bagogames&period;jpg" width&equals;"450" height&equals;"341" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The beloved Kinect is receiving updates to improve voice and motion commands&period; The gesture functionality is one item that has been fine tuned to stop the false positives people are experiencing when non-hand objects trigger gesture commands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>GameDVR quality has been improved by updating the compression algorithm&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Xbox One Blu-ray player will now output at 50 Hz for content that has also been recorded at 50 Hz&period; The Blu-ray app will also see some additional updates&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The prior update introduced firmware updates to the controller and headset adaptor but unfortunately it also introduced static to the mix&period; This time around Microsoft hopes to have addressed the crackling audio problem once and for all&period; Many users have expressed outrage that a next-gen console doesn&&num;8217&semi;t offer state of the art sound right out of the box&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the last update is centered around how your system will behave during the next system update&period; If you keep your console in Instant On mode&comma; the system will take the update automatically and there will be no need to power it on to do an update&period; Lastly&comma; if you want to force your system to update without waiting for it to happen during off hours&comma; you can now initiate the update yourself under system settings&period; Note&comma; the update will only appear if an update is available&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Is there a new feature you&&num;8217&semi;re excited about&quest; Or did something on your wishlist get left off this release&quest; If so&comma; let us know in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;majornelson&period;com&sol;2014&sol;04&sol;14&sol;new-xbox-one-system-update-begins-rolling-out-tonight&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Major Nelson<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;