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Can you explain what this does on the technical level?

nvidia has this similar product but the game runs on their servers, you have to sign into your accounts on their machines. Playing Destiny you login into battlenet using some kind of teamviewer app and then launch the game.

steam link just (poorly) pushes video from your PC to your living room.

Where in this spectrum does Rainway stand? Please be technical for us here



Rainway is software you can install on your local gaming rig or cloud provider of your choice. Once you've installed the Dashboard on your PC, we establish a P2P connection between it and the connecting client.

Then we utilize your existing computer hardware and games, and you can play them instantly inside of a browser via low latency, high fidelity stream.


"low latency, high fidelity stream."

So this doesn't use browser technology for networking?


We make use of a custom version of WebRTC (default) (https://github.com/RainwayApp/spitfire) and WebSockets as a fallback with low latency implementations.




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