Xbox One October update available today with new avatars, Dolby Vision, and Alexa support
Microsoft is releasing a significant dashboard update for the Xbox One today. The new October 2018 update for Xbox brings Microsoft’s new diverse avatars, Dolby Vision support for Netflix, and an Alexa skill to control your console with an Echo device. After more than a year of testing, the new Xbox Live Avatars will begin appearing across the Xbox dashboard today.
The new avatars will appear on profiles, activity feed posts, friend blocks on the home screen, and elsewhere. They’re fully customizable to be as diverse as possible, and there’s even a new avatar store to purchase additional cosmetic items for the avatars. Xbox users can even keep their old avatar if they wish to do so.
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