Select Xbox One Insiders get access to new Creators Update today

Xbox One & Windows 10

The Creators Update is designed for gamers who play on the Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs and begins rolling out today to a subset of gamers who are members of the Insiders Program.

With a strong focus placed on improving social connectivity, competitions, streaming and overall performance, the Creators Update has been designed to give you a more user-friendly experience whilst simplifying existing processes.

The main improvements noted are:
An updated look at Home:
  • One of the first things you’ll notice is a new look for Home. Through the Insider program, we’ve received feedback from Xbox One gamers that the UI can be complex and for certain tasks, can require too many button presses. Our goal is to simplify the UI and increase overall system performance, and that starts with updating Home based on what you care most about for the games you play.
Faster and more intuitive Guide:
  • The next thing you’re likely to notice is that Guide has been updated. With one press of the Xbox button on your controller, you can pull up the newly enhanced Guide as an overlay on the left side of your screen, no matter what you’re doing. With the Guide, we’ve added new features and functionality.
New way to multitask:
  • In addition to adding a new start page to Guide, we’re also evolving our multitasking system. To simplify discoverability and to make it much quicker to get to the things you care about most, our multitasking features will also be designed to work well with the new Guide. In addition to quick access to music, screen shots and GameDVR will be one button press away. You can bring up Guide and press “X” or “Y” on your controller to record your favorite gaming moments.
Cortana gaming enhancements:
  • There are a series of new Cortana updates to make your Xbox One smarter. In this update, you can set reminders and alarms so you don’t miss gaming sessions. In the coming weeks, we will be releasing more Cortana updates to enhance your gaming experience even more as well as continued performance and reliability updates.
Improving system updates:
  • Our goal with system updates is that you never have to worry about them again, and to make it clearer when a system update is available. To enable this we are updating the interface so the steps are easy to understand. We’re also going to enable every Xbox One owner to keep their console, games, and apps up to date independent of which power mode they have chosen. 
Enabling Xbox One to be accessible for everyone:
  • One important area for us with this release is to enable Xbox One to be able to be used and played by everyone. Take for instance our new Copilot feature which allows two controllers to act as if they were one. This will help make Xbox One more inviting to new gamers needing assistance, more fun by adding cooperative controls for any game, and easier for players who need unique configurations to play — whether that is with hands apart, hand and chin, hand and foot, etc.. 
New spatial audio output settings for developers:
  • To enable more immersive experiences for Xbox One, we have added a number of audio output features in Settings. If you are a developer on Xbox One, the new settings will allow you to add Dolby Atmos for Home Theater, Dolby Atmos for Headphones, and Windows HRTF support to your streaming media application or game.
Blu-ray player bitstream passthrough beta:
  • The Blu-ray disc player on Xbox One now supports a beta of bitstream passthrough, which allows your receiver to decode audio natively. All bitstream formats are supported, including newer ones like Dolby Atmos.

If you are not one of the select few who receive the update today, don’t stress as more invites will be sent out to members of the Insiders Program over the coming weeks. For more in-depth details regarding this update please visit Major Nelson’s Blog.