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Guru3D.com » News » Valve announces operating system Steam OS

Valve announces operating system Steam OS

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/23/2013 07:46 PM | source: | 112 comment(s)
Valve announces operating system Steam OS

After some teasing, Valve has finally announced yet another piece of its living room takeover — Steam OS. Steam OS is a living room UI that is clearly the spiritual (and more sophisticated successor) to the company’s Big Picture product. Released last year, Big Picture allows any Steam user to play their games on a television with an enhanced UI and controller compatibility.

 

A big feature of Steam OS is its in-home streaming, which utilizes a home network to run games located on any computer to the TV. Valve has also confirmed the presence of Family Sharing. Announced earlier this month, Family Sharing allows users to share their owned games with friends and family digitally, through the cloud. There will likely be media partnerships for both music and video in the coming months.

It’s been a long time coming, but Steam OS is the first taste of Valve’s efforts to bring the PC experience to the living room. While it’s not yet clear what the next two pieces of puzzle will be until later this week (the next announcement is slated for Wednesday), it’s a good start.

The dividing line between PC and console gamers has only gotten thicker over time, especially as independent developers have found much greater success selling their products on Steam than a proprietary console platform like Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Marketplace. Steam OS will give those developers the opportunity to create a console experience for their games without the difficulty of working with multiple platforms.

It’s a great first step for Valve, but the additional hardware announcements will likely fill in the details of how the company envisions its place in the console world alongside Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.







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Anarion
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#4660514 Posted on: 09/23/2013 08:08 PM
Home network lag will add about 10-20ms on top of what there already is.

And a lot of this is about getting developers to put out a proper linux version as well, these will run faster than their windows directx counterparts.
Home network lag is nothing and no where near 10-20ms, not even close. Encoding the video and audio is what causes the overhead.

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#4660515 Posted on: 09/23/2013 08:09 PM
ok..noones noticed it yet???

Steam O S

SOS.

is that a sign of things to come??

lol, probably will be for Gabe if Valve spend too much money on this.

As much as I think there is not anywhere near a big enough market for this I am looking forward to trying the OS out.

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#4660516 Posted on: 09/23/2013 08:10 PM
isnt it TV only?


Uh oh .. the next announcement will be a Kinect like device :D

New voice command - Steam, take my money. No need to throw your money at the screen any more!

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#4660522 Posted on: 09/23/2013 08:22 PM
kind of useless for most people i'd suspect

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#4660523 Posted on: 09/23/2013 08:23 PM
Didn't Gabe say they were working on some sort of motion controlled wearable controller?

I have a 360 controller and already use a TV, so I will be fine but surely the UI will be garish on a monitor up close and the OS very hard to use with a mouse/kb, as i know Big Picture is.

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