Don’t know your FSR Diamonds from your DirectStorages? Here’s what all that Project Helix tech-speak actually means

James Archer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:48:54 +0000

A man with a gun stands above the crowd at GDC, the barrel levelled at the words "Next Gen Raytracing Performance & Capabilities." Alas, he is not here to shoot the technojargon out of existence, nor to ballistically punish the unforgivably inappropriate use of title case. He himself is a ray-traced gamething, here to illustrate at least three of the many hardware-based tricks and tools that Microsoft are hyping up for Project Helix: the next, apparently PC game-running Xbox console.

Xbox Full Screen Experience shows a potential glimpse of how Project Helix will work – though right now, it’s a flawed PC platform

James Archer — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:48:53 +0000

I regret to announce that I have a theory. It involves handheld PCs, Project Helix – Microsoft’s next, PC game-running Xbox console – and least likely of all, an apparently sincere attempt at making Windows 11 less of a bulging, AI-infested colostomy bag. That attempt is better known as Xbox Full Screen Experience, and now that it’s finding its way onto portables outside the MS-branded Asus ROG Xbox Ally series (plus big-lad PCs as well), I’m convinced that it was introduced at least in part to test the waters of how a Windows PC/console hybrid could operate.

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Don’t know your FSR Diamonds from your DirectStorages? Here’s what all that Project Helix tech-speak actually means

Xbox Full Screen Experience shows a potential glimpse of how Project Helix will work – though right now, it’s a flawed PC platform