dreamscene revival

Microsoft is quietly testing a built‑in video wallpaper feature for Windows 11 that lets users set ordinary video files — MP4, MKV, MOV and others — as looping desktop backgrounds directly from Settings or via a contextual “Set as wallpaper” command in File Explorer, a revival of the old...

Microsoft’s personalization team appears to be answering a long-standing user request: native video wallpapers — a modern take on the old DreamScene feature from the Windows Vista era — are now visible in recent Windows 11 Insider preview builds, but they remain experimental, hidden behind...

Microsoft is quietly testing built‑in support for video wallpapers in Windows 11, a modern revival of the long‑forgotten DreamScene experiment from the Vista era that lets users set looping MP4, MKV and other video files as desktop backgrounds — and this time Microsoft is building the capability...

Microsoft has quietly begun building native support for video wallpapers into Windows 11 — a full-circle moment that revives a DreamScene-era idea while exposing difficult trade-offs around battery life, compatibility, and the long shadow of third‑party wallpaper engines. The capability...