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They actually tried! There was a Chromium project called Blimp for a while which supported browser streaming, but it got shut down after less than a year in dev
by andrewguenther 5y ago
They actually tried! There was a Chromium project called Blimp for a while which supported browser streaming, but it got shut down after less than a year in development. Had some major dev power behind it too, not sure what happened.
- throwaway3699 5y agoProject Stream & Stadia happened, iirc.
- andrewguenther 5y agoVery different projects than what Blimp was. Blimp was integrated into Chromium's rendering pipeline itself to stream draw commands directly to the client browser.
- throwaway3699 5y agoTrue, but I do believe there was a natural evolution. Stadia started as a Chrome project, for example.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoThat's not going to help with watching YouTube videos though.
- mdwelsh 5y agoI was head of the Blimp team at Google and could tell you exactly what happened, although it’s probably not something I can discuss too much publicly. Great project, great team, turned out to be very hard and involved making major changes to Chrome to do what we wanted. And unlike Mighty we were not willing to charge users a ton of money to use it. Fast, cheap, high quality: pick two :-)