The gaming PC, streamed to any screen

Unchaining the horsepower

A powerful gaming PC has a strange problem: all that power is usually stuck at one desk. The machine is fast, but its speed is only available to whoever is sitting in front of it.

We wanted the horsepower without the seat. So we stream the gaming PC to any screen in the house through a web page. Open the page, and the fast machine is simply there — on a laptop, on a TV, wherever you happen to be.

A shared resource, not a single seat

The more interesting decision was treating that PC as a shared resource rather than a dedicated gaming rig. The same machine time-shares between two jobs: gaming, and other heavy work that also wants a strong graphics card.

When something else needs the graphics card, the machine hands it off, and when the game wants it back, it returns. One expensive piece of hardware ends up doing double duty instead of sitting idle whenever nobody is playing.

A fast computer is too useful to lock to one chair.

Why stream it

Streaming the whole experience to a browser means the power lives in one place and the screens are just windows into it. There's nothing to install on the device you're using, and no reason the fastest machine in the house should serve only one room.

It reframes what the PC is. Not a gaming station that occasionally does other things, but a pool of compute that happens to be very good at games — and equally good at whatever heavy job is next in line.

The result is a machine that's rarely wasted. When someone's playing, it's a console on every screen. When they're not, it's back to work. Either way, the horsepower goes where it's needed instead of waiting at a desk.