Steam in-home streaming enters beta

One of the fancy features promised by SteamOS is the ability to stream Windows games over your home wireless network. And it's entered beta.

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One of the fancy features promised by SteamOS is the ability to stream Windows games over your home wireless network. So even if you don't have a top of the line Steam Machine hooked up to your TV, you'll still be able to use your primary gaming PC to stream Windows games wirelessly.

The feature has now entered beta, and is primarily directed at "development partners." (via PC Gamer) However, "more and more people" will be invited into the beta over time. In fact, it appears that many non-developers are already getting access.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    January 16, 2014 2:45 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Steam in-home streaming enters beta.

    One of the fancy features promised by SteamOS is the ability to stream Windows games over your home wireless network. And it's entered beta.

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      January 16, 2014 3:26 PM

      really curious how small the latency is. just for educational sake, how much ms is there betweens computers on a network. and Id like to see real-life latency data using a video camera

      the future is here........diablo3 on the can on my android device

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        January 16, 2014 3:34 PM

        LAN in a house is going to be like 1ms.

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          January 16, 2014 4:30 PM

          Unless you use your vita to stream games at which time you want to pre-empt every move.

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      January 16, 2014 4:15 PM

      Once this is ironed out, someone needs to make a chromecast like device. SteamCast!

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      January 16, 2014 4:56 PM

      It'd be pretty cool to stream a game to multiple tablets to get a Wii u type experience

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