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Rainway is not cloud gaming, you utilize your computer, and it is entirely P2P. We don't have servers that host games, you use your own.

anotheryou 8y ago
thanks for the answer, that should be stated somewhere :)
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wyldfire 8y ago
> Rainway is not cloud gaming ... > And yes, even Overwatch in the browser on whatever system you’d like. "On whatever system you'd like" versus "you use your own" seems to fly in the face of meeting system requirements. Lots of other requests for more info here. This is a "Show HN" after all. How does it work? Are you translating the binary into wasm? Whatever it is, how you did it is more of your secret sauce than what you did. Please share.
- andrewmd5 8y ago
  Rainway is game streaming. We take the game running on one system (say your home PC) and stream it to the other device. You can read about the tech here: https://rainway.io/technology/ https://rainway.io/technology/
  - wyldfire 8y ago
    Awesome, thanks, this is much clearer! BTW latency still matters here, so an even awesomer future "Show HN" might include some great analysis on how you got your product from X ms peak latency down to Y ms peak latency.
  - jonny_eh 8y ago
    So it's just like Steam Link or Nvidia Geforce Now?
    - chupasaurus 8y ago
      Steam In-Home Streaming to be exact, Link is a hardware device. edit: fixed a mistake.
  - tzs 8y ago
    Can I use it to stream the display to another system, but continue using the mouse and keyboard from the gaming PC? I want to see my PC game on my Mac, but my gaming PC has way better input devices for gaming. (My gaming PC is near my Mac...it is just that the way my desktop is arranged the PC monitor is in a place that is not good for long term viewing, but I can easily put the PC mouse and keyboard in front of the iMac). Also, it wasn't quite clear from your site. Does this only work with games that you have to specifically include support for, or is it more general?
    - andrewmd5 8y ago
      You could, yes. We don't take over the controls and simply pass input to the system mouse and keyboard or to the controller we emulate on the machine. So you could stream to your mac and play using your PC's keyboard and mouse. It works with all games you own through all digital game sellers.
kowdermeister 8y ago
> Rainway is not cloud gaming Then right on your homepage: "Play Your Favorite Games on Any Device Rainway makes game streaming so easy you'll be playing in just a few clicks. Download and join our beta today!" I would make it way more obvious. Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?
- tzs 8y ago
  > Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office? I'm interested because a 27" iMac is front and center on my desk, with a 24" second monitor to the right. My gaming PC is hooked up to the second input of the second monitor. Playing a game either means turning my head to the right while the rest of my body faces forward (to have good keyboard and mouse position), or turning my whole body right, and then having to reach left for the keyboard and mouse. Can't do whole body right with keyboard and mouse inf front of body, because that would put the mouse in free space and the keyboard right side sticking off the desk. Neither of these is comfortable. Moving the gaming PC to its own space with its own monitor would take major rearrangement of the living room. Something that lets me use the Mac as a display for the games on my PC would make things much much nicer.
  - falsedan 8y ago
    Steam in-home steaming sounds right up your alley…
    - kickopotomus 8y ago
      Is it just a steaming service? Or do they perma-press too? ;)
      - falsedan 8y ago
        I think making fun of other peopl's mistakes is the kind of dick move that is only funny to jerks

anotheryou 8y ago

thanks for the answer, that should be stated somewhere :)

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wyldfire 8y ago

> Rainway is not cloud gaming ... > And yes, even Overwatch in the browser on whatever system you’d like. "On whatever system you'd like" versus "you use your own" seems to fly in the face of meeting system requirements. Lots of other requests for more info here. This is a "Show HN" after all. How does it work? Are you translating the binary into wasm? Whatever it is, how you did it is more of your secret sauce than what you did. Please share.

andrewmd5 8y ago
Rainway is game streaming. We take the game running on one system (say your home PC) and stream it to the other device. You can read about the tech here: https://rainway.io/technology/ https://rainway.io/technology/
- wyldfire 8y ago
  Awesome, thanks, this is much clearer! BTW latency still matters here, so an even awesomer future "Show HN" might include some great analysis on how you got your product from X ms peak latency down to Y ms peak latency.
- jonny_eh 8y ago
  So it's just like Steam Link or Nvidia Geforce Now?
  - chupasaurus 8y ago
    Steam In-Home Streaming to be exact, Link is a hardware device. edit: fixed a mistake.
- tzs 8y ago
  Can I use it to stream the display to another system, but continue using the mouse and keyboard from the gaming PC? I want to see my PC game on my Mac, but my gaming PC has way better input devices for gaming. (My gaming PC is near my Mac...it is just that the way my desktop is arranged the PC monitor is in a place that is not good for long term viewing, but I can easily put the PC mouse and keyboard in front of the iMac). Also, it wasn't quite clear from your site. Does this only work with games that you have to specifically include support for, or is it more general?
  - andrewmd5 8y ago
    You could, yes. We don't take over the controls and simply pass input to the system mouse and keyboard or to the controller we emulate on the machine. So you could stream to your mac and play using your PC's keyboard and mouse. It works with all games you own through all digital game sellers.

kowdermeister 8y ago

> Rainway is not cloud gaming Then right on your homepage: "Play Your Favorite Games on Any Device Rainway makes game streaming so easy you'll be playing in just a few clicks. Download and join our beta today!" I would make it way more obvious. Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office?

tzs 8y ago
> Also what's a good use case? I can play games on my powerful home PC from the crappy laptop at the office? I'm interested because a 27" iMac is front and center on my desk, with a 24" second monitor to the right. My gaming PC is hooked up to the second input of the second monitor. Playing a game either means turning my head to the right while the rest of my body faces forward (to have good keyboard and mouse position), or turning my whole body right, and then having to reach left for the keyboard and mouse. Can't do whole body right with keyboard and mouse inf front of body, because that would put the mouse in free space and the keyboard right side sticking off the desk. Neither of these is comfortable. Moving the gaming PC to its own space with its own monitor would take major rearrangement of the living room. Something that lets me use the Mac as a display for the games on my PC would make things much much nicer.
- falsedan 8y ago
  Steam in-home steaming sounds right up your alley…
  - kickopotomus 8y ago
    Is it just a steaming service? Or do they perma-press too? ;)
    - falsedan 8y ago
      I think making fun of other peopl's mistakes is the kind of dick move that is only funny to jerks