A wired connection from your Xbox One to your router using an Ethernet cable. A wireless connection using the 5GHz band (if available) to your Mac. How to enable game streaming on Xbox One. Before your Xbox One can stream games to your Mac, you must first enable the game streaming option. Here's how to do it. Hit the Xbox button on your controller. If you've not already set up SmartGlass on your Xbox One, this is how to do it. Press the Xbox button on your controller (which is the logo of Xbox) to open the guide. Then select All Settings. Go to Preferences and select Xbox app connections. OneCast is an app available for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (also with versions for Android and macOS) that streams your Xbox One games to any supported device, in high definition video with near-zero lag.
I've been really enjoying my Xbox lately (when the family is asleep) as well as some fun Retrogaming on original consoles. Back in 2015 I showed how you can stream from your Xbox to any PC using the Xbox app from the Windows Store. You can pair your Xbox controller with any PC you've got around (either with the $20 Xbox Wireless Adapter or just with a micro-USB cable you likely have already). In fact, I often walk on the treadmill while streaming games from the Xbox to my little Surface Pro 3.
Now Microsoft has jumped on the trend, and have added casting abilities to the Xbox One. Xbox Wireless Display App. Today, Microsoft has released its new and improved Wireless Display app for the Xbox One. Through this, PC's and Android screens can be projected to the Xbox One. The app allows the Xbox to basically act as a Miracast receiver. Cast to Xbox One without Chromecast If you don't have a Chromecast device, you can still cast some of the apps to your Xbox One. However, I was only able to cast the YouTube app on my Android phone.
Then, a year later I did the inverse. I played PC games on my big screen using a SteamLink! Although they've been discontinued, they are out there and they work great. This little box lets you play PC games remotely on your large screens. I have a big PC in my office and I wanted to use the big TV in the living room. The game still runs on the PC but the video/audio and controls are all remoted to the Xbox. Plus, SteamLink only works with the Steam app running and is optimized for Steam games. It's a single task box and one more thing to plug into HDMI but it works well.
Fast-forward to today and I learned that Windows 10 can project its screen to an Xbox One AND you can use your Xbox One controller to control it (it's paired on the Xbox side) and play games or run apps. No extra equipment needed.
I installed the Xbox Wireless Display App on my Xbox One. Audacity music production windows. Then on my PC, here's what I see upon pressing Win+P and clicking 'Connect to Wireless Display.'
Once I've duplicated, you can see here I'm writing this blog post wirelessly projected to the Xbox. It just worked. Took 5 min to do this.
If you're tech savvy, you may say, isn't this 'just Miracast' and 'hasn't this always been possible?' Yes and no. What's been updated is the Xbox Wireless Display App that you'll want to install and run on your Xbox. You may have been able to project your PC screen to various sticks and Miracast adapters, but this free app makes your Xbox a receiver for Miracast broadcasts (over wifi or LAN) and most importantly - now you can use your Xbox controller already paired to the Xbox to control the remote PC. You can use that control to play games or switch to mouse control mode with Start+Select and mouse around with your Xbox thumbsticks!
If I hit the menu button I can see how the controllers map to PC controls. No remote keyboard and mouse connected from the Xbox.yet. (and to be clear, no word if that will ever be supported but it'd be cool!)
To make sure you can do this, run DxDiag and save all information into 'DxDiag.txt.' Here's part of mine. There's nothing special about my machine. It's worth pointing out I have no Wifi adapter on this machine and it has an NVidia 1080 video card. Miracast is happening over the Wired LAN (local area network) in my house. This is Miracast over Infrastructure and it's in Windows 10 since version 1703 (March 2017).
When you've connected your PC to my Xbox and are streaming FROM my PC to your Xbox, you'll see this bar at the top of the PC side. There's three optimization settings for Gaming, Working, and Watching Videos. I assume these are balancing crispness/quality with framerate and latency changes.
Now let's take it to the next level. Twiztid discography free. I can run Steam Big Picture and here I am running Batman: Arkham Origins on my PC, but played on and controlled from my Xbox in the other room!
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Ok this is amazing. You run 'wireless display' on your Xbox. Then on your PC, just WinKey+P on your PC and connect to wireless display. This is Batman on my Xbox.RUNNING ON MY PC pic.twitter.com/pyxmHLe3fz Does microsoft office have powerpoint.
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) March 14, 2019Www bluestacks com for windows 8 1. I like that I don't need the SteamLink. I find that this runs more reliably and more easily than my original set up. I like that I can switch the Xbox controller from controller mode to mouse mode. And most of all I like that this doesn't require any custom setup, extra work, or drivers. It just worked out of the box for me.
Your mileage may vary and I'm trying to figuire out why some people's video card drivers don't allow this and then end up with no 'Connect to a Wireless Display' option in their Win+P menu. If you figure it out, please sound of in the comments.
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Give it a try! I hope you enjoy it. I'm having a blast.
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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