Steam Streaming
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When I signed into steam today I noticed that they have released their streaming service which was announced when they announced their Steam Machines.
From what I have read it seems to be a local “OnLive” service, or In-Home Streaming.
Video and audio are streamed from your main gaming PC to any other device that is running steam, this could be an old slow laptop or a home theatre PC. You can also remotely install, launch and play games as if you were sitting at your main gaming PC. Keyboard, mouse and controller input is sent back to your remote PC.
All this is supposed to happen in milliseconds but that would all depend on your home network.
I can’t imagine this sort of set up working well with competitive gaming but it may work extremely well with casual gamers. I know i would like to be able to get comfortable on my bed and play games but everything is on my gaming pc which means I have to sit at my PC to play. Hopefully with Steam In-Home streaming I won’t have to.
WITH IN-HOME STREAMING YOU CAN…
Play your Windows games on devices running other operating systems
Currently Mac OS X, Linux, and SteamOS, with support for more systems coming soon.Play your demanding games on lower-end systems
System requirements dictate the rig you’ll need to run your game, but with In-Home Streaming they won’t limit where you can play.Kick back with your laptop or home theater PC
Your Steam games are now available throughout your home when you stream them from your PC to your computer, netbook, laptop, or HTPC.Seamlessly pick up where you left off
Looking for a change of scenery? Steam knows whether your game is already running. Move to another device and start streaming your game right as you left it on your PC.Download once, play anywhere
No need to wait for your game to download again when it’s already installed on one of your home computers.To start streaming you need to do the following:
- Log into Steam on your Windows PC
- Log into Steam on another computer in the same network
- Visit your Steam library to start streaming between them.
For more information: http://store.steampowered.com/streaming
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I’ve just had an awesome idea which will probably never work but it would be pretty amazing if you could Steam Stream to a Chromecast.
