Game Streaming and Epic's Secret Metaworld
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Epic has built a pretty sweet-looking venue on top of the Surreal Events platform. It’s called Detroit Lab which you can visit here. Once you create a character you can explore some of the conference venues with automotive and virtual production showcases.
It allows you to access high-fidelity environments straight from your browser through Unreal’s pixel streaming technology. A remote server renders the environments and sends the video feed back into the browser in real-time.
I’ve been a long-time believer in cloud streaming tech and first got excited about it when someone was playing Witcher 3 on an age-old MacBook back in 2015, streaming frames from an AWS EC2 instance. With advancements in WebGPU, we’ll soon be playing the next AAA games through our browsers.
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