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NVIDIA has announced that it will roll out an on-demand cloud-based gaming service for its Shield tablet.
The service is powered by the firm's Grid virtual GPU technology, which takes advantage of Citrix's XenDesktop 7.1 and Citrix XenServer 6.2 virtualisation software to allow users to stream graphically intensive applications remotely. It will be free for Shield Tablet users until 30 June 2015.
"While Grid makes gaming gratification immediate, it took us a decade to invent the technology behind the service that streams GeForce GTX-quality graphics to Shield devices," explained Nvidia, which touted the technology as a "gaming supercomputer in the cloud".
"The enabling technologies of Grid are super low latency from controller streaming to graphics to game streaming. And virtualisation so that many gamers can share the GeForce cloud gaming supercomputer," the firm added.
"And we're loading it up with great games. We have AAA titles like Batman: Arkham City and Borderlands 2, as well as classics like Brutal Legend and Psychonauts," Nvidia said.
"We have 20 great games on Grid at launch worth over $400, and we plan to add more games every week."
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It's very nice of Nvidia to let Shield Tablet users try out Nvidia online game streaming for free until June 30, 2015.
The game section of Batman: Arkham City and Borderlands 2 is great. I wonder what will be the remaining 18 games for Nvidia Grid.
The service is powered by the firm's Grid virtual GPU technology, which takes advantage of Citrix's XenDesktop 7.1 and Citrix XenServer 6.2 virtualisation software to allow users to stream graphically intensive applications remotely. It will be free for Shield Tablet users until 30 June 2015.
"While Grid makes gaming gratification immediate, it took us a decade to invent the technology behind the service that streams GeForce GTX-quality graphics to Shield devices," explained Nvidia, which touted the technology as a "gaming supercomputer in the cloud".
"The enabling technologies of Grid are super low latency from controller streaming to graphics to game streaming. And virtualisation so that many gamers can share the GeForce cloud gaming supercomputer," the firm added.
"And we're loading it up with great games. We have AAA titles like Batman: Arkham City and Borderlands 2, as well as classics like Brutal Legend and Psychonauts," Nvidia said.
"We have 20 great games on Grid at launch worth over $400, and we plan to add more games every week."
Read More
It's very nice of Nvidia to let Shield Tablet users try out Nvidia online game streaming for free until June 30, 2015.
The game section of Batman: Arkham City and Borderlands 2 is great. I wonder what will be the remaining 18 games for Nvidia Grid.