Steam In-Home Streaming Officially launched

[WYP]

Today Valve has officially released Steam In-Home Streaming to all users, a new feature of which will allow players who are logged into Steam on two computers on the same network can remotely install, launch, and play games as though you playing through your main PC directly.

Currently this feature is only supported on Windows based PCs, but these Windows based machines can be used to stream to Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Steam OS based machines.

The system requirements for in home Streaming remain unclear, but the requirements to play each game will be the same. So simply put if your system can run Crysis, it can Stream Crysis. Hopefully this means that even ridiculously low powered systems, perhaps AMD Kaveri or potentially weaker parts can be used for a Steam StreamBox.

Valve were happy to provide this small Q&A for the potential of Steam In-Home Streaming.

Play your Windows games on devices running other operating systems
Currently Mac OS X, Linux, and SteamOS, with support for more systems coming soon.

Play your demanding games on lower-end systems
System requirements dictate the rig you’ll need to run your game, but with In-Home Streaming they won’t limit where you can play.

Kick back with your laptop or home theater PC
Your Steam games are now available throughout your home when you stream them from your PC to your computer, netbook, laptop, or HTPC.

Seamlessly pick up where you left off
Looking for a change of scenery? Steam knows whether your game is already running. Move to another device and start streaming your game right as you left it on your PC.

Download once, play anywhere
No need to wait for your game to download again when it’s already installed on one of your home computers.

Steam in home Streaming, according to Valve will be as simple as 1,2,3.

1. Log into Steam on your Windows* PC

2. Log into Steam on another computer on the same network

3. Visit your Steam library to start streaming between them

Further support and information will be available on Steam's official support site here.

I cannot comment on the current performance of Steam's In-home Streaming, having only used an early beta build personally. That said I am looking forward to give the first official release a try, once my exams are over that is.

Until then, good luck and happy Streaming.

As always thanks for reading, and please post your thoughts below.

Source - Valve

 

[iBeInspire]

If this can do 1080@60fps, would be worth looking into