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Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Have you checked out my company https://parsecgaming.com ? We offer this but also the ability to connect to your own computer and invite your friends to connect to your computer too.

I've really been enjoying Parsec, for whenever I wanna casually drop into a Windows game (am mainly using macOS). Great job!

Thanks!

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Looks like there is an older article but it didn't float as quickly as this one [0]. This is a direct link to the signup page [1], and this is a link to the about page [2].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18115445

[1]: https://projectstream.google.com/aco/signup

[2]: https://blog.google/technology/developers/pushing-limits-str...

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Oh good, the company that constantly bails on it's ventures is starting a new one in a space that is far from being realized still. Seriously, if what's the goal? Being a supporting network for gaming infrastructure?

Google's promotion and incentive structure is built around launching products. This will launch, putter along for a couple of years and then get shuttered unless it's a surprise success.

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Have you checked out my company https://parsecgaming.com ? We offer this but also the ability to connect to your own computer and invite your friends to connect to your computer too.

I think you're being down-voted because the comment is kind of advertise-y (maybe that'll be different in an hour). Since it is your company, do you have any insight into potential challenges that the average reader wouldn't consider? I understand that a benefit to "game streaming" is that a game originally not networked (like splitscreen only) can be played by multiple people over a streamed connection.

> I think you're being down-voted because the comment is kind of advertise-y.

It would have been upvoted if it was a reply on one of the top comments that complain about Google, though. Placement.

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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I hate that Google can pour money from its infinite ad revenue into other things and beat out competitors by virtue of being able to sustainably run unsustainable (for others) businesses. EDIT: For people who are interested in this, I would recommend studying the history of AT&T, especially the 1956 consent decree.

If they can push the industry forward I am all for it. In general some innovations are not sustainable but are still beneficial for the end users, getting these otherwise neglected fields funded through other income streams doesn't seem too bad.

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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Doesnt even work on firefox or IE. It tells me to use Chrome which I recently ditched due to privacy violation concerns.

It's amazing how Chrome has become the Internet Explorer 6 of the modern web era.

Instead of ActiveX I wonder what would be an appropriate way to describe it.

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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post #23

Oh good, the company that constantly bails on it's ventures is starting a new one in a space that is far from being realized still. Seriously, if what's the goal? Being a supporting network for gaming infrastructure?

Google's promotion and incentive structure is built around launching products. This will launch, putter along for a couple of years and then get shuttered unless it's a surprise success.

Sure, though technology or ideas from products that aren't successful is often incorporated in future projects.

Honestly there's a really good blog post/article waiting to be written grouping and classifying shuttered google projects into groups based on purposes, because for a lot of them, they aren't created to be successes or make money, but for other business reasons, legal precedents, creating competition or disrupting a particular business segment, etc.

Re: Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream

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"Sorry, this project is currently open in the U.S. only" can someone make images of the webpage, please. thank you https://projectstream.google.com/aco/location

I tried, but it's also only for Chrome https://i.imgur.com/xcqYdjA.png

So following Google’s gold-standard for accessibility then: both geo AND user-agent blocked.

How could it possibly fail?

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