The Microsoft Store has an update to Microsoft Copilot that extends the capabilities of Copilot Vision. Rolling out initially to members of the Windows Insider Program, Desktop Share allows Copilot Vision to see a user’s desktop, enabling real-time conversation with the AI app, which will be able to answer questions about what it sees using text or natural language. Copilot Vision “can help analyze content, provide insights, and answer your questions, coaching you through it aloud,” according to Microsoft, offering things like “tips on making improvements to your creative project, help with improving your resume, or guidance while navigating a new game.”

The visual inquiry extends to “all the files, apps, windows, webpages, and other items on your screen that you choose to share,” writes ZDNet, noting the Copilot Vision visual companion is “available in the U.S. for Windows 10 and 11 and coming soon to other non-European countries.”

“To get started click the glasses icon in your composer, select the desktop that you’d like to share, and ask Copilot to help with whatever you’re working on,” Microsoft explains in a blog post, adding that users can stop sharing at any time by pressing “Stop” or “X” in the composer.

ZDNet reports you can also use the glasses icon to enable Vision from a voice chat with Copilot. “You can even share two apps or files at a time, and Copilot Vision will connect the dots between them,” ZDNet notes, using the example of sharing “both your calendar and a webpage of interesting events and ask the AI to find dates when you’d be free to attend the events you like. Copilot Vision will find a suitable date and even talk you through the steps to add the event to your calendar.”

The Desktop Share update for Copilot Vision (version 1.25071.125 and higher) is being rolled out through the Microsoft Store to all Insider Channels, though “Microsoft stated that the update is being shipped in a phased manner, so it might take a few days before all Insiders see it,” Gadgets 360 reports.

Tom’s Guide points out that Google’s Gemini Live and Apple Intelligence offer similar screen sharing AI functionality. But PCMag writes that compared to those apps, “Copilot Vision proves Microsoft’s AI game is on a whole other level.”