Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:26 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

So it got me thinking; you know what would be neat? A *personal*
OnLive server, run from my house that could stream the games in my
library to any compatible device I happened to have in front of me.
Now *that* is something I could get behind.

Hey 2010 me, this is me from 2025. Are you happy now? 'Cause you got
what you want! Home-streaming is one of the many features included in
Steam and I can do exactly what I wished for.

Sorry... while searching for an old article I happened to stumble
across this post of mine, and it amused me that what I thought
incredibly unlikely in 2010 is now such an unexceptional add-in that
most people don't even know it exists.

I've actually used Steam's built-in streaming to use the big at-home
gaming rig to play games my much-less powerful laptop struggled with.
It works fairly well; my biggest complaint isn't so much to do with
the streaming but having to play on a tiny laptop screen with a tiny
laptop keyboard. But the actual streaming works pretty well. In 2010,
I had a hard time imagining an ordinary PC could not only run a game
at ultra-settings but also compress and send the video over the
Internet.

I think my original assertion that had OnLive

[Remember OnLive? They were a very early cloud-gaming
streaming service, like GeForce Now except worse and
more expensive]

sold their server software as a stand-alone product, they probably
would have lasted longer. I most likely would have bought it anyway.
But I guess it all worked out in the end, seeing as now I get the same
thing for free with Steam.

I have never used it (i run laptops) but I'd imagine it would be an
incredibly nice feature to have for people with massive rigs at home. It
is always cool looking back and seeing that your wish was granted
though.
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