Feature is accessible but unusable right now
The mischievous folks at SteamDB have managed to access Valve’s upcoming “In-Home Streaming” feature for Steam that was talked about during theSteamOS announcement. It will allow users to play Windows and Mac games on, say, a Steam Machine over their home network. I specifically say “will” because the feature isn’t fully implemented yet.
Since it is viewable, we have learned a bit more about it — like the options to limit bandwidth and framerate. SteamDB gives an example of how in-home streaming could work: “Let’s say you haveTeam Fortress 2on your Steam account and don’t think it’ll run on your Steambox setup. You’ll have to stream it off your desktop. IfTF2is not installed on your desktop you caninstall it remotely. When you have it installed you cansimply press “Play”and it should start streaming.”
Sounds good in theory, but I’m most interested to hear what kind of a connection we’ll need to maintain good visual quality. That could be where things start to fall apart for most people.
Streaming, remote management & SteamOS settings![SteamDB]
