NVIDIA Gamestream
Share Your PC Game Videos And Let Friends Play Your Games Remotely With NVIDIA
Much like the Share Play feature available on PlayStation 4, Nvidia will soon offer a new feature on PC that attempts to simulate a local multiplayer experience over the Internet. Nvidia has announced the next version of its GeForce Experience program. Currently, this serves as a way of keeping your GPU drivers up-to-date and optimizing the graphical settings you use when playing games. An upcoming version introduces several new features mimicking those found on PS4 and Xbox One. Most noteworthy among these is GameStream Co-Op. This essentially allows you to invite someone to (virtually) sit next to you on the Internet. Doing so allows that person to do what PS4’s Share Play allows: Take over the controls, either to try out a game for themselves or to help you get through a tough spo...
NVIDIA reveals Gamestream
NVIDIA announced Gamestream this morning, an initiative aimed at pairing the company’s GPUs with streaming gaming via its Shield handheld game console. Company head Jen-Hsun Huang says the service takes NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience software and pairs it with NVIDIA GPUs and the Shield to push streaming gaming to the living room. Huang said Gamestream’s first stop is a re-branding of the Shield’s streaming tech — sounds like that PC streaming tech on Shield is coming out of beta. But Huang’s not stopping there: he pulled NVIDIA’s Ujesh Desai on-stage, and he showed Shield powering PC game streaming on a nearby LG 4K television. “What makes Gamestream special is the low-latency of it,” Huang said. Desai used a Nyko wireless controller that...