OnLive might have been and gone, however the tech giants nonetheless see a future in remotely streamed games – quickly, Google will likely be getting in on the motion. Officially announced on the Google blog here, the unimaginatively named Project Stream claims it may possibly push high-end games from Google’s servers immediately onto your browser display screen with minimal lag. I’m to see if they will pull it off.
While sadly restricted to American sign-ups solely and requiring a 25 megabit connection at minimal, Google are taking sign-ups for Project Stream now, and plan to start restricted testing on October fifth. Streaming direct and interactive through Chrome, they’ll be showcasing their tech with the ever-photogenic Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Take a have a look at it streamed and re-captured beneath.
While plucky little outfit OnLive might have crashed and burnt of their early try to carry game streaming to the mass market, Sony have seen some success with their PlayStation Now service. Even PC customers can play older PlayStation games remotely now through the subscription service, though you’re at a little bit of a drawback with out an official Sony controller. Given that Project Stream will hopefully be operating native PC variations of games, a greater diversity of enter units needs to be supported, in addition to management rebinding. Fingers crossed.
Sadly, the Project Stream test-run is restricted to America solely, though hopefully they’ll be testing it in different areas quickly. Latency and connection stability is massively necessary when streaming like this, so there’s each probability that Google will skip on some international locations in the event that they do find yourself rolling out Project Stream full-time. Until they just lately rolled out fiber-optic on my avenue, the perfect cash might purchase right here was a 20 megabit connection, falling beneath even the fundamental testing necessities for Project Stream.
Project Stream begins testing on October fifth with Assassins Creed Odyssey. You can read more about it here, and sign up here. You can discover the full system requirements here.
