You Can Now Control Your XBox One With Google Assistant

Google and Microsoft have tied-up to bring Google Assistant to the Xbox One. According to official announcements from both the tech giants, the new Xbox Activeness for the Google Assistant is now live every bit part of a public beta program for all English language customers. The companies say they are working together to aggrandize language support before launching the feature more broadly later on this fall.

While Xbox One already supported Amazon'due south Alexa and Microsoft's own Cortana, the support for Google Assistant volition now enable gamers to interact with their console in even more ways using just their vocalism, including the power to turn the device on and off, launch games and apps, play and pause videos, and perform a whole host of other actions from devices with Google Banana, including Google Home.

Xbox One users wanting to join the beta plan can do then by joining the official Xbox Actions Google Group with the Google account they intend to link up to their panel. You can check out the exact details past going over to the official XboxInsider sub-Reddit. One time you're part of the plan, you tin start controlling your Xbox One with Google Assistant vocalization commands, such as: "Hey Google, plough on Xbox" or "Hey Google, play Gears v on Xbox".

While the addition of Google Banana support for Xbox is a welcome motion for about gamers, it's hard non to see information technology as yet another blast in the coffin of Cortana, which keeps languishing manner behind all its rivals, including not only Google Assistant, but too Amazon's Alexa and Apple tree'due south Siri. It's likewise some other grovelling acknowledgement from the Redmond giant that its own voice-based assistant is nowhere near as refined or avant-garde equally the offerings from its peers.