First ‘Designed for Xbox’ projector arrives within the US subsequent month for $1,600

Though it’s the primary projector with the badge, Microsoft’s “Designed for Xbox” program is a pre-existing initiative that’s seen it work with different producers to verify their equipment are appropriate with its consoles. In keeping with Microsoft, this system already covers “greater than 15 classes” like headsets, gamepads, and racing wheels, in addition to a collection of shows from 2021.

To be clear, you’ll be able to plug your Xbox into nearly any projector and anticipate it to work. However Viewsonic’s senior enterprise line supervisor Mia Shen boasts that its X2-4K projector “was developed to be thought of a real gaming projector” and “went via 63 exams performed by Crew Xbox to make sure final console compatibility.” Particularly, Viewsonic notes that the X2-4K has been licensed to work with HDMI’s Client Electronics Management (CEC) normal to permit a linked console to manage projector options like energy and quantity — although it provides that the function works with “any of the present gaming consoles” and never simply Xbox.

Extra importantly, the X2-4K is styled within the basic Xbox model colours of black and inexperienced, so on the very least it’ll match the colour scheme of your Xbox Collection X (although most likely not your white Collection S, sorry). There’s additionally point out of “Xbox unique decision and refresh fee combos,” although it’s not clear precisely what this implies — we’ve pinged the corporate for extra particulars.

Viewsonic says the X2-4K can produce as much as a 100-inch show when positioned simply 1.5 meters (about 5 toes) away out of your wall (it’s a short-throw projector in any case — to not be confused with ultra-short-throw) and presents a claimed 2,900 lumens of brightness. That sounds fairly vivid, although Gizmodo notes that when utilizing the extra industry-standard ANSI measurement that ranking drops to 2,150 lumens.

The X2-4K is provided with two HDMI ports and a pair of 6W Harmon Kardon-branded audio system. Annoyingly, these HDMI ports use the two.0 slightly than the two.1 normal, and the projector’s framerate tops out at 60Hz when exhibiting 4K content material. To play appropriate Xbox video games at 120Hz you’ll have to drop the projector’s decision all the way down to 1440p, although contemplating the dearth of video games that may max out the console’s decision and framerate concurrently which may not be an excessive amount of of a limitation. The X2-4K projector can be run at 240Hz should you’re ready to drop the decision all the way down to 1080p.