Windows 10: Meet the Xbox Insider Team as Avatars

Brink · Oct 11, 2018

Not only has the Xbox Insider Team helped share and gather feedback on the updated Xbox Avatar Editor and experience throughout 1810, but as individuals, we’ve been excited to create our own Avatars! Now that most of our community has had the chance to take the Xbox Avatar Editor for a spin, we wanted to unveil our own Avatars so you can get to know the team a bit better.

Get a glimpse of our personal style below and learn what some of the members of the team do to keep the lights on.

Alan, Software Developer – I work as a software developer on the Xbox Insider Hub app and services.

Anna, Software Developer – I help create and maintain the services that support the Xbox Insider Program.

Ashley, Xbox Program Manager – I work with game studios to get their awesome games in front of Xbox Insiders, so Insiders can provide feedback and studios can make those games even more epic before release!

Austin, Xbox Program Manager – I work on the Xbox OS side of the Insider program, monitoring feedback and troubleshooting issues with the Xbox One console releases.

Bradley, Xbox Insider Team Lead – I am a Program Manager responsible for Platform and Hardware Previews. Essentially, this means my team and I provide users with early access to system updates and features.

Chad, Software Developer – I’m one of the engineers working on the Xbox Insider Program. I help to build the experiences in the Xbox Insider Hub and the supporting services. If you ever get stuck in a ‘pending’ state while trying to join some insider content; that’s my fault. But we’re working on it.

David, Xbox Program Manager – I’m a gamer dad in my off hours and a PM on the Xbox Insider Team with a focus on content, community, and quality during the work day. I work alongside a team of awesome developers to build the Xbox Insider Hub, and in addition, I manage the r/XboxInsiders subreddit with a dedicated group of volunteers and community builders.

Don, Xbox Program Manager – I work with Game Studios to flight their titles through the Xbox Insider Program!

Donovan, Xbox Program Manager – I help identify bugs and trending issues provided by our Xbox Insiders to ensure top quality throughout the Xbox experience. I also assist with system updates and Windows gaming feedback.

John, Software Developer – Programmer man. Also responsible for feeding the hamsters that power our servers.

Jon, Xbox Program Manager – I help with Xbox One System Update Feedback and with Idea Drives found on the Xbox Ideas website.

Kendrick, Xbox Program Manager – I’m a Program Manager on the Xbox Insider Team and work on the “Report a problem” tool and future innovations to make the program even better.

Leland, Xbox Program Manager – I spend most of my time thinking up ways to get the things you tell us to the right people, faster. I’m also pretty handy with a color wheel.

Robert, Xbox Program Manager – I help organize game and app playtests and also assist with triaging bugs related to the Xbox Insider Hub, making sure that the app runs as expected.

Sally, Xbox Program Manager – I work on publishing tools to help improve upon the Xbox Insider experience.

Savannah, Xbox Program Manager – I work closely with Brad to ensure system updates and new features are available to our Xbox Insiders in a way that allows them provide feedback as early as possible. From there, I help communicate that feedback and more internally to our partners across Team Xbox and also externally via the Xbox Insider Blog.

Scott, Xbox Program Manager – Salutations! I’m Scott AKA BroHammersley. I’ve been a program manager on the Xbox Insider team for more than 4 years and had several jobs (providing support on the forums, triaging bugs, writing announcements and release notes, etc.). These days I mostly help publishers and developers bring their games and apps to the Xbox Insider Program, but I do a bit of everything. You’ll also sometimes find me posting in the Xbox Insider subreddit or Xbox Insider Club (as BroHammersley).

Todd, Director of Xbox Flighting – I get to work with an awesome group of people that are extremely customer and quality focused. We work across Team Xbox and our Game Studio partners to drive engineering actionable feedback into Xbox One, Games, and other Xbox experiences, like Xbox Avatars. Most of all, I am thankful for all of the great Xbox Insiders around the world that share our team’s passion for gaming and continuous improvement.
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Source: Meet the Xbox Insider Team… as Avatars! - Xbox Wire

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Ariel Acu · Oct 11, 2018

Can't sign in to Xbox Avatars.

Hi,

A network interruption while connecting to the Xbox Server is one of the possible reasons as to why you can't sign in your account to the Xbox Avatar app on Windows 10. To resolve your issue, we suggest that you perform the following solutions below:

Solution 1: Run the Windows Apps troubleshooter by clicking the
Run troubleshooter button on this link.

Solution 2: Reset the Xbox Avatar app from Settings menu.

Press the Windows key on your keyboard, and then click the Settings icon.

Select System, and then select
Apps & features.

Find the game, and then click on Advanced options.

Click Reset.

Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.

Solution 3: Reinstall Xbox Avatar app from Windows Store.

Let us know if that works for you.

Patrizia R. · Oct 11, 2018

Xbox live avatar not displaying correctly - shows up as a black box

Hello everybody,

I would suggest you try to do the following:

Turn on the Xbox

Log on to your account if it doesn't login automatically

Go to your avatar configuration area and change some feature (Hair, eyes, shirt, etc.)

Save the change.

If you have a special avatar customization like Halo or Gears of War suits avatars, try and see what happens if you go back to a basic setup. Once you saved the changes on the Xbox, wait until the changes get pushed to the device. You can also try to turn
of the phone and switch it back on again to see if the update comes faster.

Hope this solves the issue, Merry Christmas to everybody!

Brink · Oct 11, 2018

New Avatar Editor Debuts to Xbox Insiders

Get a Head Start on Customizing Your New Avatar

First unveiled last year, a major update to Avatars is arriving today for Xbox Insiders. Avatars will be a unique representation of your desired style, personality, creativity, and mood as you play on Xbox One. As an Xbox Insider, you’re among the first to get your hands on the new Avatars. With this release, you can get a head start on creating a new Xbox Avatar within the beta Xbox Avatar Editor app. We’re starting things off with a selection of customizable appearance and closet items in each category. Additional accessories, props, moods, clothing, and appearance categories will be unlocked in the near future, and more content will regularly become available after launch. Right now, we’re only turning on the Avatar Editor itself, but Xbox dashboard integration will be coming soon to Insiders.

Our team is busy applying the final touches for our first preview of the Xbox Avatar Editor app. The flight will officially begin tomorrow, June 19, and members of Alpha and Alpha – Skip Ahead will be able to access the beta Xbox Avatar Editor via the Xbox Insider Hub’s Insider content tab by noon PDT.

New Categories

The new Xbox Avatars are built from the ground up in to enable an unprecedented amount of inclusive customization options, and we will continue to grow these selections over time. A wide range of body types and gender-neutral clothing enable you to uniquely tailor your avatar however you see fit. If you see something you like, you can use it. Xbox Avatars now feature entirely new categories of appearance items and accessories, including fingernails, makeup, limbs, nose rings, and moods.

Countless Color Combinations

Thanks to the powerful new Avatar Editor app, virtually every aspect of your avatar can be personalized on-the-fly. Each feature, including skin tone, hair, wearables, and props, can support over 16 million color options. Most closet items also support multiple custom colors, so the number of possible color combinations for a single item can go from trillions all the way up to almost eighty octillion– that’s an eight followed by 28 zeroes! With so many color options, it could be easy to lose track of that exact hue that you just used on an item. But don’t worry! Your recently used colors will be available in the “my colors” section of the color selection menu.

Smile for the Camera

Once you’ve created your new Avatar, you’re going to want to show it off! The Photobooth feature in the Avatar Editor enables you to capture a great photo of your Avatar to use as your Gamerpic. Pose your Avatar using a multitude of different emotes, each of which can be paused and advanced frame-by-frame with far more control than ever before. Rotate and zoom controls help you capture the exact pose that you’re looking for, and a wide variety of background colors enable you to set the scene.

Express Yourself

Self-expression is an important tenant of Xbox Avatars, and we know that some of you have become attached to your Xbox Original Avatar since we first introduced them almost ten years ago. We’re giving you the freedom to choose how you represent yourself to Friends on Xbox Live, whether that’s with the all-new Avatars, a custom Gamerpic, or your Xbox Original Avatar. We love the new Xbox Avatars, and we hope you do too.

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Source: New Avatar Editor Debuts to Xbox Insiders - Xbox Wire

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