Google has announced a new technology, dubbed Project Stream, which is to serve as test ground to solve some of the biggest challenges of game streaming, and a big step forward in the efforts to bring blockbuster AAA games to online streaming platforms.
The initial test for Project Stream will involve the streaming of the upcoming premiere of Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on Chrome for Windows, Linux, Mac and ChromeOS; though only a "limited number of participants" will be able to experience this free game stream starting on October 5, 2018.
According to Google, the test is meant to push the limits with one of the most demanding applications for streaming — a blockbuster video game; while 25Mbps Internet connection is recommended for the test service and Google/Ubisoft accounts sign up.
The streaming of such graphically-rich content requires near-instant interaction between the game controller and the graphics on the screen, which could pose a number of challenges.
And the creativity behind these AAA video games is extraordinary—from incredible detail and life-like movement of the characters, including the skin, clothing, and hair, to the massive scale of the virtual world in which the game unfolds, down to the last blade of grass.
While the streaming of TV or movies may be comfortable with a few seconds of buffering at the start, but the streaming of high-quality games requires latency measured in milliseconds, with no graphic degradation.
As every pixel is powered by an array of real-time rendering technology, artistry, visual effects, animation, simulation, physics and dynamics.
Google is inspired by the creators who have spent years crafting these amazing games: adventures and experiences, and hope to build the technology that will support and empower that creativity.
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