David Hanak At January's CES trade show, which took place in the first half of the month in Las Vegas, nVidia introduced a new GeForce Now service, which was supposed to allow users to play the latest games using the "gaming" cloud infrastructure and stream content to the default device. During the year, nVidia has been working on the service, and it seems that everything should be almost ready, because it GeForce Now moved to the beta test phase. Starting Friday, Mac users can try out what it's like to play the latest and most demanding games that are not (and in most cases will not be) on macOS, or they are unable to run them on their machine.
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The operation of the service is quite simple. As soon as there is heavy traffic, the user will subscribe to the game time according to an as yet unspecified price list. Once he's subscribed to the service (and the specific game), he'll be able to play it. The game will be streamed to the user's computer via a dedicated client, but all demanding calculations, graphics rendering, etc. will take place in the cloud, or in nVidia's data centers.
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Patrik Siwek The only thing you need for reliable operation is a high-quality Internet connection that can handle video transmission and control. Foreign servers have already had the opportunity to test the service (see the video below) and if the user has a sufficient internet connection, everything is fine. It is possible to play almost everything, from the most graphically demanding titles to popular multiplayer games that are not available on macOS.
Currently, the service is possible try for free (however, the games have to be paid for separately, so far it is only possible to join from the US/Canada), this trial period will end at the end of the year, when the beta test itself should end. Starting in the new year, GeForce Now will be in full swing. The pricing policy has not yet been disclosed, but it is expected that there will be several subscription levels, depending on the type of game chosen and the number of hours the user wants to purchase. Do you think this service will be successful?
Source: Appleinsider
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It won't happen, at least not here.. Because the fast internet is missing here and will be missing for some time
Hello, does anyone know how to join this beta? When I try to connect to Steam, I get a message that my account "is not authorized to access beta" and after clicking "Join Beta" it just redirects me to the page where I downloaded GeForce Now. Thank you
So far, the beta only works for users in the US and Canada. It should launch for Europe and the rest of the world in the coming weeks.
It works great. I just tried it.
How did you start it? on PC or Mac?
On a Mac. I have a VPN from Giganews.
But I would like to try it both at work and at home, I have 60 MBit .. and I download about 8 MBs