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
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?
yeeeee more bloatware
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
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!
This is for msft employees working on game bar who can’t use discord on work computer.
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
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.
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.
