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48 hours until reveal #2

 

[alr1ght]

In-home Streaming
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Music, TV, Movies
We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.

Family Sharing
In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.

Family Options
The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Holy shit:

In-home Streaming

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Music, TV, Movies

We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.

Spotify integration will be apart of this, since there has been code for it in Steam for a few months now. Also, I would expect Netflix and Amazon Video.

 

[Sapphire Dreams]

Whoa.... That's huge !

It offers streaming too, that's amazing !

 

[dreamfall]

Whoawesome!

 

[DaBoss]

In-home Streaming

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

This is all I wanted. Thank you based Valve.

 

[Myafterhours]

Gabe be praised

 

[opticalmace]

Awesome. Wonder how many games are supported though, and how the performance compares to Windows...

*edit2: Okay, few hundred supported natively, all if you stream. Now how is the performance?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I barely use Steam, so it's basically an OS within an OS on a PC? right?

No Steambox?

Probably more the idea that this turns anything into a Steambox.

 

[Brazil]

Boring.

 

[lightning2k3]

Access the full Steam catalog of over nearly 3000 games and desktop software titles via in-home streaming.

Streaming steam device confirmed?

 

[Amneisac]

I'm assuming this will just depend on linux drivers for video cards and stuff? Or is this going to be some weird runtime environment kind of thing?

 

[The Boat]

If it's small and helps with game performance I'm in. If not, as long as it doesn't harm future games' stability on Windows I'm OK with it.

 

[Deleted member 22576]

Look at that kitty cat just chillin out playin some steam!

 

[PetriP-TNT]

How does it handle Direct X?!

It doesn't.

 

[Wereroku]

Valve wants Microsoft to die in a fire confirmed

Now just want to know about game compatibility...

It is addressed the same way as Vita Tv plays ps4 streaming from your windows pc. Still a very cool announcement this is leading to a better HTPC more than anything.

 

[Thranduil]

Absolutely brilliant.

 

[Shambles]

In-home Streaming

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Hnnng!

 

[Jb]

So it's mostly a streaming box to get you PC games on TV? Ok.

 

[jj984jj]

No Steambox?

They have two more announcements to make.

 

[Acosta]

BOOM

 

[peakish]

Finally, the Year of Linux on the Sofa Table.

 

[Fantastical]

Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014.

Really interested in this.

 

[FrsDvl]

Interesting I suppose, depending on what they mean with living room devices.

 

[kingocfs]

I really have no idea what to think of this without more details.

 

[WonkyPanda]

TOTAL precursor to steambox.

 

[Nags]

This is huge.

 

[statham]

This is all I wanted. Thank you based Valve.

me too, hope its priced right.

 

[danthefan]

Smart TV's? IDK. Quite the megaton.

See it sounds great but I don't have a Smart TV, so if I have to buy new hardware (or a new living room machine I suppose) to use it it's not much good to me.

 

[Maedhros]

What does this changes? Will I still be able to use the Steam on PC like always, without any hassles?

 

[BronsonLee]

So no magic wrappers that make your entire library available there.

Some sort of Linux distro.

Yup. Requires 2 PCs too. I built my HTPC to play Steam games directly on it, so this doesn't quite fit me...yet

 

[big_erk]

What is a "living room machine"?

This. Just what is a living room machine?

 

[JNT]

Heard some rumblings about three announcements over three days? HL3 megaton?

[edit]
More to the point, I'm honestly not surprised about this at all.

 

[LevityNYC]

Streaming? Dat input lag.

 

[The_Player]

Absolutely legit question: when would it be possible to put SteamOS on PS4?

 

[Stumpokapow]

The streaming compromise works well. They build the tech and encourage more Linux ports but simultaneously get the full Windows library given that many devs won't port no matter how easy it is

Absolutely legit question: when would it be possible to put SteamOS on PS4?

Is it possible to put Linux on PS4?

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Ready and waiting

 

[Billen]

Hopefully this will spring a larger Linux movement. I miss the good old OS wars.

 

[Ricker]

I dont get all of this...what is this Living room machine exactly...?

 

[Derrick01]

Just as I expected, nothing that's a big deal at all.

 

[Sponge]

I might actually buy one these.

 

[Finalizer]

GEE WHIZ

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

What do they mean with "living room machines"?

Steambox or other living room pc's. You just apparently need something that can run the os + stream 1080p so you don't need anything good.

 

[Wereroku]

I'm assuming this will just depend on linux drivers for video cards and stuff? Or is this going to be some weird runtime environment kind of thing?

I assume valve will personally handle drivers since it will be their OS.

 

[Lasthope106]

201x - The year of SteamOS Linux!

 

[-tetsuo-]

So... they are going to have to go through and make all the games work on Linux?

 

[Takamura-San]

So it's mostly a streaming box to get you PC games on TV? Ok.

This. I hope not. I really want to boot my PC to Steam OS and install games and do all that shit without windows.

 

[puffyshirt]

In-home Streaming
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Does this mean Steambox probably won't be an actual game-running PC I can buy, but actually another $99 Roku-type device that just streams?

I have no desire for that at all.

 

[Grief.exe]

I barely use Steam, so it's basically an OS within an OS on a PC? right?

No Steambox?

That announcement coming later, this one just predicates the Steambox information.

There are two more announcements scheduled for this week.

Does this mean Steambox probably won't be an actual game-running PC I can buy, but actually another $99 Roku-type device that just sreams?

Nope, there will be multiple versions.

 

[Reckoner]

Really hope they push this forward, since at the beginning it will be limiting. I'll keep using Windows, but I'll do a side check on this for sure