A first look at Google’s Project Stream Gaming Controller! - Yanko Design

Google'southward Project Stream makes a promise that'south deadline remarkable. Imagine if you could play a game without a graphics bill of fare. Everything renders off-site, on a massive GPU, and streams to your screen. You're literally using a Cloud-BASED Graphical Processor Unit! Everything happens in realtime, and to you lot, information technology essentially ways y'all're playing a game every bit avant-garde and intensive as Assassin's Creed, only you lot're playing it in Google Chrome. Run your controls on your figurer, they get sent to the cloud where the game is being played, the cloud inputs your controls, renders the scene, and livestreams it to your browser with negligible lag. All you lot need is high-speed net! Sounds BONKERS, correct?!

Project Stream occurred as a one-time test-run for Google, assuasive simply a handful of people to play Assassinator's Creed Odyssey on Chrome. Withal, if recent patent-files are any indication, Google is planning on taking this seriously. Hither'south a await at the Project Stream controller, a visualized concept based on Google's patented design… a concept, if executed perfectly, that could tank XBox and PS sales, and fifty-fifty kill the gaming laptop industry. The Project Stream (I made the mistake of calling information technology Steam a bunch of times. I wonder why Google hasn't defenseless onto that glaring possibility) helps integrate quite a few community features into the gaming feel also. For starters, since yous're gaming on the cloud and having the game streamed to you in realtime, you tin can stream your game to other people besides. The controller has a chat/voice button congenital into it, aside from a Stream push, home push button, options button, and your regular control sticks, action keys, directional pad, shoulder buttons, and triggers. Gaming with Google'southward Projection Stream won't be a radically new experience… simply information technology'll be so radically convenient, you'll probably exist able to play the latest and best games on a chromebook over reliable Wi-Fi… and if that isn't the virtually mind-numbingly keen affair ever, I don't know what is!

Designer/Visualization: Sarang Sheth