Xbox forms Xbox Labs to explore AI game remixes, ports and browser play
Microsoft's Xbox announced a new Xbox Labs team that will use small-scale R&D and prototyping to explore cross-platform compatibility, browser play, and AI-assisted game remixing and porting. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced the group internally and CTO Scott Van Vliet will lead it, with members drawn from game producers, engineers and scientists. Microsoft said Xbox Labs consolidates existing work including an Apple Silicon compatibility layer, browser game publishing and mod-community support, with no imminent products or clear timeline, while Wccftech reported the effort will lean heavily on AI and quoted Sharma saying the experiments could challenge Xbox's own business models.
Xbox says the experiments challenge long-held industry assumptions about the tether between software and hardware and the boundary between creation and play, and may challenge its existing business models.
微軟（Microsoft）旗下 Xbox 宣布成立全新的 Xbox Labs 團隊，將以小規模研發與原型測試的方式，探索遊戲的跨平台相容性、瀏覽器遊玩，以及 AI 輔助的遊戲重混（remix）與移植等新方向。這項計畫由 Xbox 執行長阿莎·夏馬（Asha Sharma）對內公布，並由技術長斯科特·范·弗利特（Scott Van Vliet）領軍。
Sharma 在說明中指出，Xbox Labs 的目標是把「新興想法」轉化為玩家與開發者能實際體驗的內容。團隊成員將由遊戲製作人、工程師與科學家組成。她強調，Xbox 會以開放的方式開發，以玩家是否更常遊玩、創作做為衡量標準，也會把工具分享給業界開發者。