Microsoft begins rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs

Microsoft has begun rolling out the beta model of its AI-powered Gaming Copilot to Windows 11 methods for customers aged 18 or older, excluding these in mainland China.

Tagged as a “personal gaming sidekick,” Gaming Copilot may even be pushed to Xbox cell app customers on Apple and Android gadgets beginning subsequent month.

To begin utilizing Gaming Copilot within the Game Bar, Windows customers should set up the Xbox PC app on their PC and use the Windows brand key + G keyboard shortcut to open the Game Bar. Next, they will discover the Gaming Copilot icon within the Home Bar, open the widget, and log in to their Xbox account.

They can use Gaming Copilot’s Voice Mode to get help with in-game duties, ask it to suggest new video games to play, test their achievements or their play historical past, and extra.

“A major step in Xbox’s journey to bring these AI-powered experiences to players is rolling out: Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more – is officially coming to Windows PC and Xbox on mobile,” Microsoft said.

“PC players will begin seeing Gaming Copilot integrated directly into their Game Bar experience, then it’ll come to the Xbox mobile app on Apple and Android in October.”

​Those who do not need to use it will possibly additionally take away Gaming Copilot from the widget record by going into Settings after urgent Win+G.

Microsoft first started testing Gaming Copilot in May (when it was nonetheless referred to as Copilot for Gaming) with the assistance of beta testers attempting the cell model on iOS and Android gadgets.

The rollout expanded in early August to Xbox Insiders enrolled within the PC Gaming Preview who had the Xbox PC app put in on their Windows gadget. In January, Microsoft additionally launched the Game Assist in-game browser in preview for Microsoft Edge Stable customers.

As a part of the identical effort to increase Copilot’s attain to extra customers, ​Microsoft began testing new AI options in Windows 11 File Explorer, started rolling out Copilot Chat to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote for paying Microsoft 365 enterprise prospects, and can routinely set up the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows gadgets exterior the EEA area which have the Microsoft 365 desktop consumer apps.

On Wednesday, Redmond additionally introduced that Notepad is getting free AI-powered textual content writing capabilities on Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11.

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