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 suitable with its consoles. Based on Microsoft, this system already covers “greater than 15 classes” like headsets, gamepads, and racing wheels, in addition to a series of displays from 2021.
To be clear, you may 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 by means of 63 checks 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 Shopper Electronics Management (CEC) commonplace 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 traditional Xbox model colours of black and inexperienced, so on the very least it’ll match the colour scheme of your Xbox Sequence X (although in all probability not your white Sequence S, sorry). There’s additionally point out of “Xbox unique decision and refresh charge 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 ft) away out of your wall (it’s a short-throw projector in spite of everything — 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 score 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 fairly than the two.1 commonplace, and the projector’s framerate tops out at 60Hz when exhibiting 4K content material. To play suitable Xbox video games at 120Hz you’ll must drop the projector’s decision all the way down to 1440p, although contemplating the shortage 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 will also be run at 240Hz in the event you’re ready to drop the decision all the way down to 1080p.