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Absolutely. This is how RDP works as well. It's one the few areas where I think the Windows ecosystem has a better approach.

I suspect as hardware encode gets better and wireless bandwidth gets greater there’s less and less merit in this.

You can theoretically serialize draw calls, but that's significantly more complicated than sending over a video stream.

Then you lose the power of a second computing device if all view rendering happens on the AVP.

We still had this (--NSDisplay ?) in the first Developer Previews of MacOSX.