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Microsoft Teams is now part of the Xbox Game Bar so you can stream gameplay to friends - The Verge

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Microsoft Teams is now part of the Xbox Game Bar so you can stream gameplay to friends

Microsoft has integrated Microsoft Teams with the Xbox Game Bar, allowing users to stream their gameplay in real-time to friends over Teams video calls. Up to 20 people can join a call to watch and chat together while gaming. The viewer can see both the game and overlaid video of friends. However, streaming performance is currently limited to 30fps or less, which is not ideal for viewing high-fidelity PC games. Viewers also cannot yet see overlaid video during gameplay. While this new feature aims to compete with Discord for social gaming, the integration still needs improvements to provide a comparable experience. Overall, Microsoft is trying to grow Teams communities and social features to rival other platforms like Discord.

Wtf who is this for

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??? Who uses Teams to talk to their friends? Teams is for work.
- Teams is for work when your employer got a good deal on Microsoft software and didn't give you Slack or literally any other alternative for voice.
  
  I miss Slack. Fuck Teams, it’s so awful.
  
  To be fair, teams has been ahead of slack on video call functionality for a few years. Noise suppression, screen sharing and additional functionality all seems to be a bit ahead.
  I use both for work. Slack is far superior when it comes to written messages, and I use slack for quick video calls with collegues, just because I don't feel like booting up Teams, but for scheduled meetings or longer conversations with screen sharing we always use Teams.
  
  I guess I don't know what I'm missing. It's been totally fine fory work.
- There's Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams.
  Microsoft Teams is for consumers and is the one preinstalled in Windows 11
  Then there's Microsoft Teams. It's for business. Is completely incompatible with the other Microsoft Teams and is a separate app.
  The icon is also "different". One has the Microsoft teams logo in white on a purple background, the other has the Microsoft teams logo in purple on a white background (forgot which and which)
  I really don't understand why they don't use the Skype branding for the consumer version. They forgot how many billions they paid for that?
  
  I really don’t understand why they don’t use the Skype branding for the consumer version. They forgot how many billions they paid for that?
  That happened in a past quarter. Money spent in past quarters doesn't matter. The next fiscal quarter is what matters.
  
  They've totally ruined any brand power that Skype once had by now, so in this case, I get it.
  
  The icon is also “different”. One has the Microsoft teams logo in white on a purple background, the other has the Microsoft teams logo in purple on a white background (forgot which and which)
  They do the same thing with PowerBI. THe cloud version is one icon, the PowerBI for Reports Server (aka locally hosted) is for the on-prem version. Pretty annoying.
  I work with Teams (Business version) daily. Have never even seen the other one.
- Teams' work makes' dreamsys workses
To your.. friends? You mean your workplace team? It could be really bad if your only friends are your workplace team
- Teams for work or more specifically Teams from Microsoft 365 Business and other corporate plans like E3, E5, etc is different from the Teams installed by default on Windows 11. I don't think you can even message across them.
  
  Microsoft has a real branding problem with messaging services. First they had Skype and Skype for Business and now they have Teams and... Teams. They're completely different products and don't interoperate. This is almost certainly for the home version of Teams.
  It's not even a good name. Who thinks of their friends and family as teams?
oh good, because when I'm talking to all of my friends they all use... Teams.
Only the cheapest and most microsoft dependent companies use teams, and I don't know a single social group that uses teams.
- Teams x Gamerz 😎😎😎
  My friends all use Teams (but only to talk within each of their companies)
yeeeee more bloatware
I wish Microsoft would have actually been taught a lesson about anti-trust bullshit rather than having a pro oligarch new administration let them off scot free
I hate using Teams at work.. I definitely don't want it for my gaming too.
@trashhalo This really feels like Microsoft's Google Assistant moment - taking a duplicative effort of something they already had, gassing it to high heaven and shoving it everywhere despite not being asked for or welcome.
Only time will tell if they will also follow Google's approach of it slowly languishing until it crumbles apart and they do the process all over again.
This is for msft employees working on game bar who can't use discord on work computer.
hey that's the tool that everyone uses and definitely isn't only seen when you open it accidentally! I bet that will be a very worrying competitor to the well established platform from 2015!
Oh gee, great. I'm glad development effort was invested in this feature instead of something like having the web app be capable of showing 6 people in a conference call at the same time. /s
Why tho? The Venn diagram of people who use Teams and enjoy it enough to use outside of the workplace and PC gamers is two separate circles.
I don't know of a single person who even knows what Teams is.
- Then you know nobody who works in offices.
- If you have pretty much any office job you either use teams or slack which is apparently worse somehow
  
  If you're in an Office you might be using a completely different product with the same name from the same company with a similar logo.
Microsoft is shoving Teams down everyone's throats harder than, I don't know what. Teams is just awful, it's slow, clunky, and a piece of shit that nobody asked for.
I haven’t used teams since 2021 and even then I didn’t use it like I use discord
Wtf who is this for
Probably the same use case as Discord's streaming feature.
- Sure but at least Discord actually works. Teams has always been a buggy mess any time I have had to use it. Furthermore, Discord doesn’t shove itself into every opportunity in an effort to remind me of its existence.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The new “Microsoft Teams Play Together” widget is available for the Xbox Game Bar and supports streaming your entire desktop over Teams and also the ability to join video calls to see friends overlaid on top of games.
Microsoft describes the new Game Bar integration for Teams as “a place to hang out while watching and playing games,” which sounds a lot like what people use Discord for.
You’ll see friends overlaid on top of a game, and up to 20 people can join a call at any one time.
I wasn’t able to see video participants overlaid on top of the game during my testing either, so that feature might not be working fully just yet.
The free version of Microsoft Teams for Windows 11 got Discord-like communities in June.
These are Microsoft’s answer to what you might find on Facebook or how people use apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Reddit to organize groups. :::
At 5fps. Al.lst every time we try streaming a YouTube video it's a slideshow and unwatchable.

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