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The 3.50 firmware update for the PlayStation 4 arrives tomorrow, according to the PlayStation Blog. This update, among other things, allows you to appear offline, show friend online notifications, and offer up remote play on your computer.New Social Features
Appear Offline
On your Profile tab, we’ve added a new option called ‘Online Status.’ From here, you can choose to ‘Appear Offline.’ This could be useful if you want to play games or watch movies without your friends knowing you’re online. You can designate if you would like to appear offline when you log-in or at any time from your Profile, or by holding down the PS Button on DualShock 4 to bring up the Quick Menu.
Friend Online Notification
Now you can choose to get notified when your friends come online. To receive notifications, select a player on your friends list, press Options, and select ‘Notify When Online.’
User Scheduled Event
On the Events tab, we’re adding the ability to schedule gameplay sessions with your friends. Just select ‘Create Event,’ and you’ll be able to make an invitation for an upcoming gameplay session. Choose the day, time, game, and send it off to your friends. When your event starts, users who registered will automatically be added to a party so you can start playing right away.
You can also share an event to a group, or a community that you’re a member of. Once shared, the event will be sent as a message, or posted to a community wall, and members can register from there
Play Together
This feature allows all members of a Party to see what each person is playing so that you can easily join a friend’s game, or start a new game together.
Other New System Features
Remote Play (PC/Mac)
With this update, we’re expanding PS4’s Remote Play capabilities to work with Windows PC and Mac.
Remote Play on PC / Mac is compatible with the following system software:
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10 or later
• OS X 10.10
• OS X 10.11
You’ll be able to select from the following resolution and frame rate options, depending on your Internet bandwidth.
• Resolution options: 360p, 540p, 720p (Default: 540p)
• Frame rate : Standard (30fps), High (60fps) (Default: Standard)
You can use one DualShock 4 as the controller for Remote Play, which needs to be connected to your PC / Mac via a USB cable.
After the system software update launches, you’ll be able to download the Remote Play Installer here.
Along with PS4’s 3.50 system software update, PlayStation App version 3.50 is out tomorrow as well. The main new features of this update are as follows:
• User Scheduled Event
- Users can schedule gameplay sessions with friends
• Dailymotion has been added to Live from PlayStation
• Other players’ shared activities appear in your activities
Appear Offline
On your Profile tab, we’ve added a new option called ‘Online Status.’ From here, you can choose to ‘Appear Offline.’ This could be useful if you want to play games or watch movies without your friends knowing you’re online. You can designate if you would like to appear offline when you log-in or at any time from your Profile, or by holding down the PS Button on DualShock 4 to bring up the Quick Menu.
Friend Online Notification
Now you can choose to get notified when your friends come online. To receive notifications, select a player on your friends list, press Options, and select ‘Notify When Online.’
User Scheduled Event
On the Events tab, we’re adding the ability to schedule gameplay sessions with your friends. Just select ‘Create Event,’ and you’ll be able to make an invitation for an upcoming gameplay session. Choose the day, time, game, and send it off to your friends. When your event starts, users who registered will automatically be added to a party so you can start playing right away.
You can also share an event to a group, or a community that you’re a member of. Once shared, the event will be sent as a message, or posted to a community wall, and members can register from there
Play Together
This feature allows all members of a Party to see what each person is playing so that you can easily join a friend’s game, or start a new game together.
Other New System Features
Remote Play (PC/Mac)
With this update, we’re expanding PS4’s Remote Play capabilities to work with Windows PC and Mac.
Remote Play on PC / Mac is compatible with the following system software:
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10 or later
• OS X 10.10
• OS X 10.11
You’ll be able to select from the following resolution and frame rate options, depending on your Internet bandwidth.
• Resolution options: 360p, 540p, 720p (Default: 540p)
• Frame rate : Standard (30fps), High (60fps) (Default: Standard)
You can use one DualShock 4 as the controller for Remote Play, which needs to be connected to your PC / Mac via a USB cable.
After the system software update launches, you’ll be able to download the Remote Play Installer here.
Along with PS4’s 3.50 system software update, PlayStation App version 3.50 is out tomorrow as well. The main new features of this update are as follows:
• User Scheduled Event
- Users can schedule gameplay sessions with friends
• Dailymotion has been added to Live from PlayStation
• Other players’ shared activities appear in your activities
Having a SO it's probably something that might be something I'll do
Remote play is useful to me but it currently has flaws (on my setup), the 720p option just isn't quite crisp enough, there is a very very small but noticeable input lag, you have to use the PS4 pad but it didn't come with a proper DS4 driver, so if you use an Xbox pad for PC games you have to swap controllers, and it doesn't recognise your PC microphone so i can't use it as i'd hoped i could.
There is an alternative, Remote Play PC is an unofficial program which has been doing this for a while now, the PS4 firmware update added some security measures so the developer is currently trying to get it working again, but reportedly it performed better than Sony's solution currently is, it also supported Windows 7, but we'll see if it still does once it's working again.