Overview of Cloud Gaming
Examples of Cloud Gaming Benefits
- Online gaming services revenues—The promising growth of online games, served from the cloud, represents additional revenue for cloud service provider (CSP) and a complement to current use models for gaming. Media technology can be used to stream the game content to the end user, applying media encoding or the media pipeline processing part of the stack to deliver the game content efficiently. Visual cloud software stack components can be used for both creation and delivery of the media.
- Any time, any place access to games—a unique characteristic of online gaming is that the delivery model from the cloud makes it possible for gamers to access and play games from their choice of devices—from smartphones to tablets to desktop machines—wherever they happen to be. This is sometimes called the any pane of glass approach, signifying that because the compute operations are mainly taking place in the cloud, users can enjoy good performance on any device across the board.
Refrence Pipelines Available
Cloud Gaming For Windows Sample
List of Cloud Gaming Open Source Ingredients
To learn more about the individual open source ingredients that make up the Cloud Gaming Pipeline and services, follow the links below.
- Scalable Video Technology (SVT) - Developer home
- Media SDK - Developer home