{"id":97680,"date":"2016-07-05T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=97680"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T12:54:19","slug":"microsoft-teases-new-xbox-avatars-in-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/97680-microsoft-teases-new-xbox-avatars-in-wheelchairs","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tease new Xbox Avatars and introduce wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Microsoft&#8217;s Phil Spence and Mike Ybarra have tweeted the first photos of the new Xbox One Avatars and the news that for the first time real-life wheelchair users can reflect themselves digitally.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Despite their popularity on the Xbox 360, Avatars never made the jump to the Xbox One.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These &#8220;updated&#8221; Avatars are expected to make their debut on Xbox One and Windows 10 as part of Xbox&#8217;s massive Summer update expected some time in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can check out what\u00a0the new avatars will look like below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxP3\">@XboxP3<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goldennike11\">@goldennike11<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeamusBlackley\">@SeamusBlackley<\/a> Sneak peek&#8230; ?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/szoTUGR6ef\">pic.twitter.com\/szoTUGR6ef<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u264f\ufe0fike Ybarra (@XboxQwik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XboxQwik\/status\/750191281196838912\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What do you think of the new avatar design? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/97590-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-5.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Check out the massive graphics difference between FIFA 16 and FIFA 17\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/97654-check-out-the-massive-graphics-difference-between-fifa-16-and-fifa-17.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Check out the massive graphics difference between FIFA 16 and FIFA 17<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best value gaming processors in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96859-best-value-gaming-processors-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best value gaming processors in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the first images of the new Xbox Avatars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,1597,91,20104,243],"class_list":["post-97680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-avatar","tag-microsoft","tag-wheelchair","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97686,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97680\/revisions\/97686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}