PC Gaming has a lot of barriers of entry -- to play all the latest and greatest games, you need a powerful machine with a graphics card that can process all the graphics. All this obviously costs a lot of money, too.
But starting October 5, through Project Stream, you will be able to play the latest Assassin's Creed Odyssey game simply inside your Google Chrome window. No jokes!
In a company blog, Google's Catherine Hsiao outlined how the company wants to push the limits of beyond 4K video streaming to something even more challenging. Let users play a blockbuster video game -- without installing it anywhere -- through a simple Google Chrome browser tab.
Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, Project Stream is definitely happening, as Google has roped in Ubisoft for the trial run of the service, when users in the US get to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey through their browser window later this week.
Google isn't the first company to come up with the idea of streaming games, as in the past NVIDIA and Sony have attempted similar remote-game streaming services in the form of GeForce Now and PlayStation Now, respectively. Where such heavyweights of the gaming industry didn't taste success, largely because streaming games -- which are pixel and graphics heavy -- are much more complex and dynamic to stream across the Internet as compared to just plain jane video.
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The demands on your Internet connection are extremely unforgiving, if you're trying to game online, let alone stream an online game -- which is what Project Stream is trying to attempt. We will wait and watch if Google can really stream AAA games at 60 frames at a minimum of 1920x1080 pixel resolution all inside a Google Chrome tab, if Project Stream has any chance of taking off.
Right now, Google's Project Stream is only open for US residents who have a home internet connections of 25 megabits per second or higher.?