Does anyone know why media playback controls (through mobile and voice command) don't work...

Cheers for the info Charmer .

Quick question.

I saw the latest dashboard video promoting the upcoming demo today and its emphasis seemed to be the voice commands using Kinect. Does anyone know or have any thoughts as to whether the game will support these same voice commands through using the regular headset
mic?.

I can't see why they would not include that option if the voice commands exist 'as-is'

According tho Xbox Support on twitter there is no way to open a DVD/Blu Ray menu during playback using the Media Remote, suggestion was to use the XB1 controller for this functionality. Which, funny enough, is exactly why I bought the media remote so that
I don't have to use the XB1 controller for controlling my media.

Sounds like they are working on a solution.

[quote user="GreyPilgrim"]

Does anyone know or have any thoughts as to whether the game will support these same voice commands through using the regular headset mic?.

I can't see why they would not include that option if the voice commands exist 'as-is'

[/quote]Ive often thought that very same thing - surely its purely a money spinner?

Alas, the answer given on the BioWare SN is that this way Kinect does all of the voice processing for the game, rather than BioWare having to make their own voice processing software and incorporate that into the game in order for it to work with a headset.
Too much work for those poor devs apparently....

Windows Media Player already installed in Windows 7 (or a free download if you have the N version). Xbox One Media Player to play that content. You can control all playback functions with Kinect.

Alternatively purchase NAS with built in media server. Use Xbox One's Media Player to playback content. Use Kinect to control playback.

Buy a media remote if you don't have Kinect.

You seem to be adding needlessly complex steps to your media playback.

[quote user="lewgiffard"]

[quote user="GreyPilgrim"]

Does anyone know or have any thoughts as to whether the game will support these same voice commands through using the regular headset mic?.

I can't see why they would not include that option if the commands voice commands exist as is.

[/quote]Ive often thought that very same thing - surely its purely a money spinner?

Alas, the answer given on the BioWare SN is that this way Kinect does all of the voice processing for the game, rather than BioWare having to make their own voice processing software and incorporate that into the game in order for it to work with a headset.
Too much work for those poor devs apparently....

[/quote]I would have thought they could easily have written voice recognition for the game that did not require Kinect.

However I would not be surprised if Microsoft did offer them a deal that voice commands would be 360 exclusive.

Then of course is the inevitable Kinect achievement that will be added, no doubt in the hope that it'll make completionists run out and buy the motion control device.