The First Xbox Project Helix Details Have Been Revealed And Xbox Mode Is Coming To All PCs

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Microsoft has revealed the first details of Project Helix outside of the fact that it will play both Xbox console and PC games at a GDC talk.

We now know that dev kits will be going out to developers in 2027 and that it will feature next-gen ray-tracing as well as AMD FSR Next which is presumably Xbox and AMD’s answer to PSSR which should allow for decent upscaling.

It was also revealed that Xbox Full Screen mode that rolled out on the Xbox ROG Ally will also be coming to all PCs and simply be called Xbox mode. It’s presumed that this will likely be what launches on Project Helix in what will no doubt be a PC/console hybrid that tries to blend both worlds.

XBOX PROJECT HELIX DETAILS

POWERED BY CUSTOM AMD SOC

• Codesigned for Next Generation of Direck
• Next Gen Raytracing Performance & Capabilies
• GPU Directed Work Graph Execution

AMD FSR NEXT + PROJECT HELIX

• Built for Next Generation of Neural Rendering
• Next Generation ML. Upscaling
• New ML. Muli Frame Generation
• Next Gen Ray Regeneration for RT and Path Tracing

DEEP TEXTURE COMPRESSION

• Neural Texture Compression
• DirectStorage + Zstd