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Cloud Gaming Today

As time flies, Internet slowly becomes the thing that the world revolves around. Every human use internet on a daily basis. A lot of companies run with tools from the internet, or that requires the internet. Without internet, a lot of daily processes may stop working, leading to a different, maybe hard lifestyle.

Also, Online Gaming has grown to an extent that its very common. Games emerged from masterpieces like Pacman and Mario, to current day RTX Games. Games were something that was given a lot of attention in development. Nowadays, lots of people tend to take a career of gaming. There are very famous people who live by gaming.

But as games and their quality increases, the hardware required for optimal gaming also developed, so did the price tag. But not everyone who wants to play the game can play with their existing hardware. For example, a school student, who has a laptop with base specs that would be enough for productivity, word documents, google searches, and maybe little gaming, cannot experience these high spec games.

To fix that, Cloud Gaming entered the arena. Many of you may have heard about Cloud Storage. The service providers own big servers of lots of storage, and lets you use their storage. You can save your content there, password protected. Whenever you need your files, you can download them via internet. This concept was developed long back by Google [Google Drive], Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and many more.

Soon, Cloud computing entered. Basically, the servers let you use the power of their computers, to give output onto your screen. You can think of this as a friend of yours who has a beastly computer. You ask him to screen share his monitor, and ask him to run a game, which you cannot run on your computer. And you connect your mouse and keyboard to his computer, so all you have is the monitor that shows you the display, and your processor receives a broadcast, and gives them information about your mouse and keyboard actions.

This concept is Cloud Gaming. All you will need is processing power to receive high refresh rate frames, and a very good internet. I tried this myself with my home Wi-Fi, and the latency was unforgivable. This concept is still being in development, so no worries. Soon, everyone will get a chance to play a game, which you thought could never run on your machine. If you want to try it out yourself, try out Nvidia GeForce Now as it has a free plan. Yes, this concept of ‘Cloud’ won’t be completely free. There may be free plans, with limits. So, you will need a pretty good machine, with good internet, and a subscription.

I think that in the future, everything will be cloud based. Cloud Computing in major tech giants is something that’s more in demand right now, then cloud streaming services, and more.

That’s it for Cloud Gaming. If you think that there may be more to Cloud Computing, let me know in the comments. Farewell, See you in the Next exciting News!!!