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Home » Technology News » What is XBOX® SmartGlass – How Does It Fit in Your Living Room?

What is XBOX® SmartGlass – How Does It Fit in Your Living Room?

XBox smart glass

Now that we know that Microsoft has launched XBOX SmartGlass at E3, on June 4, 2012, so, let’s get into to what inevitably pops up in our mind – what it actually is and how it is going to fit to your living room. How awesome is XBOX SmartGlass? How is it going to improve my watching telly and viewing the content? What will XBOX SmartGlass add to the ‘Idiot box’? Well, to begin with Microsoft’s XBOX SmartGlass is basically a mobile app that is designed to share videos from mobile devices to XBOX LIVE television and is also made to double as a second screen to output games and video for Microsoft XBOX. So, let us see how to watch HBO and play games via XBOX SmartGlass app.

What is XBOX SmartGlass app?

Microsoft claimed out loud at E3 that XBOX SmartGlass app will work on “all on your devices”. So, the XBOX SmartGlass app can be used with Windows Phone, Windows 8-based slates, and also on other mobile devices running on its competitors’ mobile platforms viz., iOS of Apple and Android of Google. This multi-platforms based app will work for browsing web, watching videos and playing games. And this is available for free download. On downloading, the app will enable your mobile device to “communicate with whatever glass surface you have.”

A Second Screen

XBOX SmartGlass app has a feature called ‘second screen’ to turn your mobile device into a second screen to view movies and videos. Imagine you are watching ‘The Avengers’ on your Android tablet and then, you simply wanted to see it on the big screen. So, just transfer the movie to the television using the XBOX SmartGlass app to play the movie on TVand vice versa. If you want to browse web, then XBOX SmartGlass will enable you to surf Internet using Internet Explorer browser on XBOX 360. Your Smartphone or tablet will provide you with a virtual keyboard to type and browse Internet in your living room.

So, here comes one question – does XBOX SmartGlass resemble Nintendo Wii U? Share your opinion in the below.

By Bidisha


Bidisha wanted to buy a new cell phone and her thorough research for gadgets revealed her passion for technology. Gradually, she found her drawn to everything related to technology and her work which involves extensive research and writing on new gadgets, apps, and smarter use of technology. Careful, her mission is to manipulate technology-naïve women to juice up their ordinary lives with use of technology.

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