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In-Home Streaming Now Available To All Steam Users
The ability to stream games from one computer to another over your network via Steam is now available to all users.
You can find out all about the feature by heading here. Basically, if you have two computers on a single network and log in to Steam on both, the two will automatically connect. From there you can remotely install, launch, and play Steam games. This feature can be used to play PC games remotely on a Mac, or to play games remotely on a lower end computer while a high-end gaming computer does all the grunt work.
For the full press release, head to page two.
[Source: Steam]
Our Take
I am primarily a Mac user, but my wife is a PC user and she has a nice, gaming-capable desktop the room next to our living room and its comfortable couch. I fully plan on using this feature to play games on my Mac in the living room.
INTRODUCING STEAM IN-HOME STREAMING
Play your games anywhere in the house with In-Home streaming
March 21, 2014 - In-Home Streaming, a new feature of Steam, is now released to all users. Players who have multiple computers at home can immediately take advantage of the new feature. When you login to Steam on two computers on the same network, they automatically connect, allowing you to remotely install, launch, and play games as though you were sitting at the remote PC.
Steam In-Home Streaming allows you to play your PC games on a lower-end computer, such as a laptop or home theater PC, or a computer running another operating system, such as Mac OS X, SteamOS, or Linux.
When you play a game using In-Home Streaming, video and audio are sent through your home network from your high-end gaming PC to another device in your home. From here, your keyboard, mouse, and controller input is sent back to the remote computer.
For more information, please visit http://steampowered.com/streaming.
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