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Microsoft's Beam 2 Streaming Service Is Now Live, Brings Major Redesign With HTML5

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By Shubham Verma | Updated: 19 January 2017 18:15 IST

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Microsoft's Beam 2 Streaming Service Is Now Live, Brings Major Redesign With HTML5

Highlights

Beam 2 is out of the testing period and available for everyone now
Microsoft has been updating the gaming experience on its platform
You can also use your Xbox One on Beam

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For the past few days, Microsoft has been making a number of announcements for its gaming platform, both on Xbox and Windows 10 PC. Last week on Friday, Microsoft detailed its plans to induce a complete overhaul to its Xbox One dashboard, introduce a 'Game Mode' on Windows 10 PC, an complete integration of Beam into Xbox One and Windows 10. Finally, Microsoft has released the new and improved Beam 2 out of the testing period, and it's available for everyone to use. 65ob

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Beam now has multiple new features along with an entirely changes homepage with multiple streams and channels. You will be able to use your Xbox Live to sign into Beam, while still using other options. But, that will change later when Microsoft will make it compulsory to use the Xbox for Beam. Other features to arrive on the platform are two-factor authentication, moderation, and more.

In addition, Beam 2 now s HTML5 player to stream gaming videos at a higher resolution and bitrate, along with better video-on-demand (VOD) controls. The new Beam website is said to load up to 5 times faster than before, with better visual experience on mobile platform. The chat experience has been rebuilt afresh with auto-completion. While the new look is live now, the Xbox One and new mobile apps will be pushed later this year. s who use the XSplit app should rejoice as the XSplit 2.9 beta update has been rolled out that adds the for FTL streaming capabilities.

You will still be able to go back to the previous version of Beam under the settings, in case you get into some trouble loading a feature on the website. Notably, Microsoft had also added 'Game Mode' for Windows 10 PC where gaming experiences will improve with better speed and performance for Xbox s.

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