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Geforce Now https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/

Make your own with EC2 https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...

Google certainly has the infrastructure and engineering talent to pull this off. I'm curious to see the results of this experiment.

It will be discontinued as major of G's startups :)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry, this project is currently open in the U.S. only

Other than invasive data collection and overlayed advertising what could Google possibly add to game streaming?

Allow you to run a game on $200 hardware that would usually require $1200 hardware.

That's been a thing for years already as bzd referred to, with a mature open source client already waiting to be installed on devices as small as an rPi.

https://github.com/moonlight-stream

Steam does this all directly too now, from pc-to-pc and to Android and soon iOS.

Further efforts to bifurcate the browser market. Keep it classy, Google.

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