Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M

Re:Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M by kossTKR on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:53PM (#28137813)

What's special about Parsec compared to competitors like Shadow.tech that seems just as good? (if not actually a bit better - i think personally after trying both)

Both are impressive but the tech must be somewhat standard no?

Also Shadow runs its own datacenters which seems far more impressive team wise.

Can anyone shed some light on why this technology is worth so much in that context?

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Re:Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M by CyberFoxar on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:49AM (#28140828)

Shadow has you uses their servers to put your stuff on.

Parsec is more like TeamViewer, VNC or AnyDesk in that you uses your own hardware to both connect to and from, albeit with a latency that's low enough to play games, and color fidelity that's good enough to do graphics. It is much valuable to businesses that wants to levrage their own powerful hardware but no be limited by teleworking employee.

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Re:Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M by kossTKR on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:35PM (#28146642)

Thanks, but i've used both of for an extended amount of time and Shadow is just as good, and honestly is more stable in games in my opinion - of course it's a bonus that you can host yourself in Parsec but the tech seems like it's the same since Shadow does this in its own datacenters and it works exactly as parsec with remote work.

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