Because SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system, it falls victim to the age-old Linux gaming problem: There simply aren’t many native Linux games. The ability to stream games around the house would be cool in and of itself, but Valve’s in-home streaming technology needs to succeed if the company wants its upstart SteamOS operating system and the associated ecosystem of Steam Machines to catch on in the living room. So why not use that connection to stream games from one room to the other?
Both are connected on the same strong local network.
In the other room I have this less-powerful laptop. In one room I have this incredible gaming PC I built.
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Valve’s in-home streaming is more like running Apple TV or another home media center. Using Steam’s in-home streaming feature to stream Assassin’s Creed IV (the black display) to an 8-year-old MacBook. A fundamental amount of hardware and network lag could never be overcome with OnLive and its ilk, and most games were simply unplayable. Gaming requires low latency: When you push a button, the associated action needs to occur as close to immediately as possible. It was the far, far away aspect that broke services like OnLive. The laptop was actually just displaying a video of the game being played, while capturing your keystrokes and sending them to a faraway server, where the real heavy-duty computing was done. Steam’s service, which is currently available in invitation-only beta form, is similar to earlier examples, like OnLive and Gaikai, that streamed games to any Internet-connected computer in Netflix-esque fashion, and let you play graphically demanding games on, say, a mainstream laptop.
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