ABOUT Steam In-Home Streaming Welcome to Steam In-Home Streaming - Beta

[Ohio Joe]

Steam In-Home Streaming is a feature that will allow people to stream games from one computer to another anywhere in their house.

This feature will be available for beta testing later this year. Beta participants will be randomly selected from members of this group, so join, have fun, and stay tuned for more details!

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream

[eShirl]

1. OK I have a dumb question

What does "stream games from one computer to another" mean?

[Ohio Joe]

2. I am not certain...

I'm guessing it is either running the game while the executable is still on the server or that once a game is downloaded, it can run on any computer on your network.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

3. I think it's the second option.

Far as I know this is all connected to the Steambox. The idea being that, for the games that the Steambox can't run natively (SteamOS being based on Linux), you can run them on your Windows computer, stream them to the Steambox and play them on your TV.

Knowing Valve this is probably not going to be limited to the Steambox, but you're going to be able to stream games from any computer in your network to any computer in your network (of course only if the computer the game is running on has the horsepower to do so).

But this is all just my speculation from general information I have read about the Steambox. I have not done any in depth reading on the topic.