GeForce Now

[Bree Giffen]

No, not advertising for them. Just want to mention that Nvidia just launched GeForce Now, a game streaming service. It's free or you can subscribe for premium. Anyways, SL is not on the supported list but it can be suggested. Should we all go and suggest SL? 

[animats]

There are several streaming services like that. They're expensive, because you're renting a dedicated rackmount gamer PC by the hour. NVidia is willing to lose money for a while with the introductory pricing, but it's going to go up.

Some startup had a system where you could do installs on your rented server. That could run SL. But I can't find that site any more. That approach is general but requires too much effort by the user, so most of these things have a limited set of games. Definitely bug them to offer an SL client.

There's an open source package called Moonlight, which allows you to use a machine of your own as a streaming server. It's basically a remote desktop. If you have enough uplink bandwidth for video, you could use that to get Second Life out to your phone.

[Paul Hexem]

15 minutes ago, animats said:

There's an open source package called Moonlight, which allows you to use a machine of your own as a streaming server. It's basically a remote desktop. If you have enough uplink bandwidth for video, you could use that to get Second Life out to your phone.

There's a number of ways to do this, not just Moonlight. Steam and nVidia both have programs that can do it. Long term, this os generally the best solution for this sort of thing. 

[Drayke Newall]

11 hours ago, Gadget Portal said:

There's a number of ways to do this, not just Moonlight. Steam and nVidia both have programs that can do it. Long term, this os generally the best solution for this sort of thing. 

AMD has the same type of streaming using your comp as the server and streaming to all devices.

[cheesecurd]

So I can play at toaster framerate, AND have incredibly bad latency and input lag.

neat

[Pussycat Catnap]

If it's free - then chances are they monetize your views for ad revenue and/or user data to sell to advertisers - and that might also keep it free.

 

[Bree Giffen]

The G-Now free service kicks you off after an hour but allows you to go back in... I guess. There's a queue of some sort. The non-kicking premium service is $5 a month/ $60 for first year and then reverts to $10 a month/ $120 a year. If it works, might be worth it rather than buying a gaming laptop or new video card. 

It records your gameplay though, for playback. Might be a sticky point for SL.

 

Edited February 7, 2020 by Bree Giffen