 Wow, so that's Discord running on an Xbox. Yeah. Wow. The Xbox has had a browser since 2014, so this isn't exactly new. But it's never had proper support for mouse and keyboard, it's never even had full controller support, and most importantly for us, it's never supported hardware acceleration. Well, with the latest update, the Xbox now gets a full Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser that can do everything from watch YouTube videos to chat in Discord to, I mean, presumably you could even stream PlayStation games on your Xbox using PS Now, isn't it? Don't they have a browser client? Yeah. No? But no. So it's complicated. Just like this segue to our sponsor, Honey is the free-to-use shopping tool that helps search for the best promo codes on loads of your favorite sites. Get it today at joinhoney.com slash LTT. We'll have that linked down below. [♪ Music playing. This is a really fun type of video for me to shoot because basically one of our writers, in this case, Alex, experiences some new piece of technology or in this case software, figures out all the ins and outs, and then I walk onto set, and I get to go through this curated experience as I learn both what's great about it and what's not so great. And I'm super, super excited about this one. Please don't disappoint me. What should we do first? I mean, I want to go to YouTube, obviously. Mouse input is perfectly responsive. Everything is exactly as I would have expected for all I can tell, other than the cursor obviously looking not very PC-like. This is basically just like using a computer. Wow, that load time though runs at 4K just immediately. To be clear, there is a YouTube app for the Xbox, but compared to being able to, I mean, even something as simple as, oh yeah, this looks like kind of a cool video for later, right click, open a new tab, bam. Just having one, these are like 30 bucks. Having this as an accessory to your Xbox could be probably the best $30 you ever spent on your Xbox, being able to just scrub through the video like this rather than using a controller. I mean, not that you couldn't use a controller. Moving our stuff around. Now, one thing that wasn't a great experience on the track pad is two-finger scrolling. Oh wait, it's working now. Oh man, like the chapter selector over here, there's no way that's in the regular Xbox app. Can I play games on Neopets? One thing that's kind of weird is that IO games seem to hard crash it. Okay, I'll play text twists. Oh my God, I'm gonna play some text twists. Oh, my big brain figuring out the puzzle immediately broke it apparently. Okay, well, it's working. Is cache is a thing? Certainly not. Oh, really? Oh, okay, cache is a check. That makes sense. Let's see if it crashes this time. No, totally working. Okay, frog fractions? Oh wow, you have to download it. It's a flash game. Man, so much of the web died with the death of Adobe Flash. Oh, do you want another sad one? Sure. Do you think this can run RuneScape? Well, you told me it's sad. Yeah, I kind of spoiled it, but. So you can't download Java. No, we've got Java. Oh, because it's Chromium based. Yeah. And they have no support for the Java plugin. Let's fire up some Google docs here, shall we? I'm not a big fan of this keyboard that, oh. Whoa, yeah. Pops. Oh, oh. Can I disable this? Large on-screen keyboard. Oh, well, it's already disabled. Okay, so this is, see, it's not there now. Yeah, it works great. This is crazy. Imagine being like, hey, mom, I need an Xbox so I can work on my homework. Johnny, get off the Xbox. Mom, I'm working on my science project. What else should we try? Open up Word, screw it. It's funny that I'm looking at this going like, wow, this is so crazy. You can do everything in a browser. It's basically Chrome OS. That's foundationally what Chrome OS is. The idea is that you don't really need the OS to do much because all of your apps and all of your main functionality should be through the browser. And then I can get notifications while I'm working on them about my daily quests and monthly quests. Let's go back to Discord. Because the thing that you want to do in Discord is be able to talk with your friends while you game. Yes. Wow, it's working. Well, the headset is not working. Checkity check, check, check, check, check. Oh, hey, hey, hey, it's working. What did you do? I have no idea, but it's working. Here we go, we ready? We ready? Oh man, gaming like a professional now. Hello? Hey? I feel like, I feel like how, whatever his face is, Bell, the guy who's falsely credited with inventing the telephone. You know? Yeah, being on the, like the first, the first telephone call. Now, obviously the first thing we're gonna wanna do now that we're in Discord is play some Halo. Well, it's updating. We're gonna play a different game, Alex. God damn it. And that's a problem. As soon as I changed tasks, Edge went to sleep in the background and the Discord call dropped. Super unfortunate. Also the mic input is now dead again. Whatever the reason was for the mic to start or stop working, maybe super Xbox ecosystem immersed people are gonna be like, oh yeah, it's like, it's this. You just gotta change that. Either way, this is not what I was hoping for. There is an app called Quarrel that I have on here. Quarrel, and is this like a third party Discord client? Yes. Hello? No, this is as far as I've gotten. I see so much potential here though. I mean, we've been saying for so long, ever since Microsoft officially added keyboard mouse support. We're like, well, the Xbox is officially a PC now. Obviously, as you can see, that wasn't the case, but between UWP apps and being able to run anything a Chromium browser could run, hopefully in the background at some point, again, Microsoft. Yeah. There's endless potential here. Just like this endless spinning bird. Now did I see you had a dictinggames.com open? Oh, come on! N64 emulator in JavaScript. Your organization turned off access to local files on the computer. Oh, interesting. So Microsoft is running the Edge browser within a controlled sandbox. You can go to websites that host their own BIOS and ROM, which is 100% illegal. There's no way to spin that as legal. So the way to legally or like at least morally emulate cannot be done here. I'll settle for it. I want to experience it. Can I use a controller? Wow, that audio though. Gamepad is connected. Yeah. Oh damn. Okay. Gamepad is connected. Every time you press a button, gamepad is connected comes up twice. No way! Playing Super Mario World on an Xbox. Super illegally, please not do. Please not do it. Now tell me something else. Oh! The chug is real boys. There's different definitions of intolerable. This is definitely in the neighborhood of like 40 to 50 milliseconds. Like it's a lot. But it's playable. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Oh boy. No? Play now. Here we go. Oh, does this one not work? Was this just a... No, it works. You just have to play a lot of Whack-a-Mole. How much you want to bet this is not Flash Player. Okay. Let's try this again. Oh my God. The keyboard is back. Go away keyboard. Oh no, I clicked a pop-up. It might just be broken. I mean, maybe it's cause you have so many browser windows open, Alex. PSX emulator online. Okay. What's Bing got for me here? Emulator games dark online. Wait, is this it? Or is this a different one? It's a different one. Ah. Alex, why did you have so many tabs open on here? It's a browser. What am I supposed to do? But it has a finite amount of memory, Alex. Okay. I want to try play emulator.online again without all this crap open in the background. One more shot to impress me here. Yourhotfeed.com. Oh yeah. I definitely want that. Yes. Fine. C-do PSX. Flash player. Is it working? No, I will not press allow. I think it's working. Oh yeah. If I go full screen, every time I need to press this, it'll just go back from full screen. Bombardinski. Here we go. I have no idea what the buttons are. Hopefully my browser back button is not one of them. It is. It is. But if I hold it, it should be fine. The analog stick- All gas, no breaks. Oh no. The analog stick also does this. So- Oh yeah. Let's go. Woo. I'm like a C-do PSX pro now. Going for the big win here. Here we go. Big jump. Oh, what? The controls get super like twitchy right around there. Hey, not a perfect experience, but it works. Let's do something a bit more reasonable. So the internet archive MS-DOS games. I mean, obviously we're going to have to play late night sexy TV show. I have no idea what kind of thing I'm filling out here. What is this? Why does that guy have the most jacked six pack? Wait, it's a nipple out. Oh, wow. All right, fine. I'm playing as Homer then. Enter space, control shift. Maybe it's on the controller. I doubt it. No. The delete keys used to jump, insert used to attack. Those are keys I wouldn't have thought to press. All right, here we go boys. Oh my God. I can't even think. Oh, come on. Okay, hold on. Can I jump and attack? I can. Hey, now we're going. Why am I beating up this small child? Wait, she has a burger. Get back here. What's her name again? Time to play something a little bit newer. Let's head over to Stadia. Controller linked. That worked immediately. Sound works. That was really easy. Press any button. Uh-oh. Oh wait. Oh, there it goes. Oh boy. Oh, okay. Breaking. Okay. There we go. Oh my God. This is stressful to watch. Oh, there it is. Oh God. Yeah. All right. That's quite enough for that. Yeah. I'd say it was fairly excellent. I mean, on a good internet connection, the latency is very usable. Let's go to GeForce Now. The drawback of GeForce Now is that they have actually- Well, that's the biggest drawback right there. Oh, bummer. Chrome beta and Safari on iPhone, iPad. That's it. Now something to note is that even though apparently there's a built-in coupon code functionality in Microsoft Edge, if you wanted to install, say, Honey, or you wanted LastPass to manage your credentials or whatever else, there's no support for browser extensions in the Xbox version of Edge. So that limits your functionality probably more than you would think. Like obviously it's not perfect today, but I can see what they're trying to do. I see the vision and I think it's gonna be, it will be good. But if you had file access, you could edit photos. Give them time. I mean, even Apple exposes the file system on iOS now. So Microsoft, I think, will come around and there'll be a little walled garden where the browser will be able to download files or install extensions and stuff like that. I say give them time. I'm willing to be patient with this, but a big part of that is that I don't actually rely on my Xbox as my primary gaming device. If I did, I might have a lot less patience and I might wish that it was in a much more complete state today, but it isn't. And I don't think it was ever really advertised as such that you'd be able to run GeForce Now on your Xbox. So it's bonus. So we got to treat it as such. And this video is brought to you by Privacy. Privacy lets you shop online with virtual cards that offer way more security and control than conventional credit cards. Like if you ever signed up for a free trial intending to cancel, then forgotten about it, only to find charges on your account for a service you never really wanted to do more than try. Well, with Privacy, you can create a new card just for that trial. All you do is designate the card to be single use, set a monthly spending limit, set it to like $1. 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