Re:What if Valve brought Steam to mobile?
by debacle on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:52AM
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I don't really understand this comment. What does "In-Home Streaming" mean in this context?
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Re:What if Valve brought Steam to mobile?
by wlesieutre on Thursday November 13, 2014 @10:08AM
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Steam has a feature called In-Home streaming where it runs a game on your fast computer and streams it to a smaller/quieter one. It's useful if you have a big desktop box somewhere but your TV is hooked to a weaker home theater PC on the opposite end of the house. Quality and latency aren't perfect, but they're pretty good.
On the Nvidia side, they added a GPU feature to stream things to their Nvidia Shield tablet (Android based, I think).
quarterto is suggesting that if Valve made an iPad client for In-Home Streaming it could compete really effectively against the Shield, since IHS works with both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards and so many people have iPads already.