It will be great if we can get some features on the SmartGlass app! Features like Speedometer, tachometer and shift change light.
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Yep, so many possible uses of Smartglass or a dedicated Forza app - maybe it’s asking too much.
I’m hoping that the marketplace when it ‘soon’ comes will make good use of it…
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The Marketplace isn’t what you think it will be.
Really? So what’s it gonna be like? I’m curious, to be honest.
And how do you know this?
Thanks
Because, just like previous Forza titles - the ‘Marketplace’ is just an in-game feature for purchasing DLC. Plus, the Creative Director Dan Greenawalt made it clear at E3 that Auction House was not returning in Forza 5 (assuming that’s what you thought ‘Marketplace’ meant).
Yeah, it would be nice to get some use out of it. Right now my surface is just used as a glorified keyboard for supplying descriptions of shared paints and for writing apologies to people I accidently hit but they can’t hear me in chat.
Would be great to see it used to sort your paint designs, get information about who and which were downloaded. A full list of tunes for a car so you can quickly decide which tune is best for a track. So much more.
Totally agree … I have limited time at home to play, so when I put Forza 5 in, it’s to drive. I don’t know how to tune or paint, so porting the tuning or painting to a Forza app inside SmartGlass would be great, as I could play with these at other times - and all our cars, etc., should be saved “in the cloud”, hence accessible from a Surface, so I can play with a tune on the Metro, and try it out when I got home. Also, track maps would be nice, along with being able to watch someone else’s lap via leaderboards, much like viewing game clips in the SmartGlass app right now.
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Toni
I’m pretty much just using \smartGlass as a keyboatd - a bit of a waste considering how much it was marketed. I would have thought a racing game would be ideal to make use of a mobile device, just like the PC sims do. But still early days I guess.
I never thought to use it for keyboard input. I must try that now. Otherwise, I agree that it’s a bullet point that has a lot of untapped potential for some games. Oh well. I never expected much support for it honestly.
Does that work with i.e. explorer on xbox one ?i’ve been using controller.
As far as I’ve tried it works on everything, that being said if they offered a chatpad for the XBone I’d probably get it.
You know what would be great is the telemetry, even during a replay.
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If they used it for telemetry and such I would love to see some data logging for the use of improving tunes. just a thought as a highly competitive forza racer.
I like the idea of a more integrated smartglass. Right now I’m on my phone in between single player races lol
I’d love to see smartglass include an option to show HUD elements that might normally be on the screen.
It could show speedo, tach, gear, the track map, your place in the race along with lap times and much more. During a replay it could show telemetry or other info. It’s a lot more limited than it needs to be.
Thanks will check that out ,my forum posts might get longer +)
Do you know if Turn 10 has any plans for adding Smartglass support for Forza 5?
Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to do Tuning and setup for your cars when you are away from your XB1?
Even creating custom paint jobs would be so much easier on smartglass.
Things like paint jobs, tuning can be done on the go… Utilize every second you have in front of console, driving the cars 
I was quite surprised to see that there is no Smartglass support while Forza Horizon had one… (I know it was developed by Playground studios)
I was initially suprised that there was not going to be day /night transitions when Hoizon had it as well. But as Dan G. said, it was a matter of time constraints. I doubt turn 10 could allocate time and resources for the smartglass development and still make the lauch date of xbox one. I hope when FM6 is released the developer has time to develop day / night transitions, dynamic weather, anmiated pit stops, add many of the race cars and tracks that didn’t make it back into FM5, and a good smartglass app. It sounds like a lot though…
I’m sure your request is already voiced in the features wishlist thread, but if you haven’t already added this there yourself, I would recommend doing so. It would serve to add your voice in as yet another person requesting this feature… It may help.
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I disagree with this … Its been 9 years since initial release … time isnt an issue
can you implement this into Forza?
Using smartglass i think you can, similar to BF4’s battlescreen, you could also have the track layout on it to.