New Xbox Labs Team Officially Announced
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a new team that will focus on AI-inspired experiments, ports and mash-ups that have radically changed gaming..
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a new team that will focus on AI-inspired experiments, ports and mash-ups that have radically changed gaming.
The short version
- The latest change in Microsoft's gaming strategy appears to be something of a reversal in Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's approach to generative AI in game creation.
- "In recent weeks, we’ve seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support," Sharma said in a note to employees.
- "Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support.
What happened
Games are and always will be art, crafted by humans, and created with the most innovative technology provided by us." On that point, Sharma noted in Tuesday's Xbox Labs announcement, "Our priorities aren’t changing. We remain committed to the 4Cs [Core, Content, Creator and Connection], to making great games, to our hardware and to being responsible stewards of IP and the communities built around it.
Why it matters
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