Nvidia hints at game streaming technology
Nvidia has hinted to Bit-Gamer that it is experimenting with game streaming technology.
The Nvidia representative we spoke to wouldn't offer any confirmation or idea of how serious the company was about the idea, but did lay down heavy hints.
'Imagine you're playing Crysis 2 on your PC and you're able to stream it around your home to a tablet device, which you could then plug into your TV if you wanted,' said the Nvidia representative.
When it comes to new technologies like OnLive, people will have the choice to 'pay to stream it over the internet, or do it themselves.'
Is Nvidia ready to announce a new product soon, we asked?
'I didn't say announce,' we were told. 'We're experimenting and that's all I can say.'
The comments came in response to questions about the imminent launch of OnLive in the UK, a new cloud-powered game streaming service due to launch in the UK this September.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyOh? Would you say it's better to use G rather then N then providing you have good range on both?
Yay?
I'd love to sacrifice my wonderful screen and peripherals to play on a tablet that's lacking proper control interfaces connected to a TV of lower resolution, quality and worse pitch than my monitor.
Especially as most PC games don't allow splitscreen or similar.
The only way I see this as useful is if you're able to run two or more of one game on the main PC and stream one of those to a less powerful device.
The 5GHz range can carry more information, but drops off quite rapidly over distance through objects (because it is a higher frequency) while the 2.4GHz carries less but goes a little further. Either way they are both pretty terrible inside anything larger than a flat.
Interesting :)
Stream a game from your PC to another device, but you have to have your PC on anyway, so why not just use that?
you could wireless kb, mouse but that's just moving clutter from one room to another, use wireless joypad or tablet controls? no thank you.
I can't think of any real advantage to this
you lose all advantages of playing on a PC and gain?
It's not like it could even add to the social aspect like playing on a TV with a console does because PC's just don't really do split screen multiplayer stuff.
seems pointless, but maybe that's just me.
How is it going to stream? Wireless - no too choppy and too much lag. So therefore you will need some sort of wire.
Why not just get a long conventional DVI cable and connect it from the PC to the TV. As for keyboard and mouse. Now THAT would be more interesting.
disagree, wireless-N or better should be able to offer little to no lag.
It's extremely useful in lots of situations but here is one example which might be quite common for people. You have a powerful gaming PC in your bedroom, and in your lounge you have a low power HTPC plugged in to your TV. It's a fully functioning PC, so you can browse the web on your TV, but the graphics card is a low energy fanless card, so no good for gaming.
With this gadget you would be able to play even Crysis on your HTPC, without ruining it's silence/energy efficiency etc.
As for the wireless issue, I don't think it's as bad as some people make out. I get a very good solid signal in my house, so I think it would work fine. And wireless is improving all the time too so it's daft for people to call this useless, especially seeing as it's probably a number of years from being available anyway.
There is free counterpart of StreamMyGame already called Single Player Game Transmitter.