[h=1]Valve's Announcement Today is the SteamOS[/h]
Valve has pulled the curtains down today on how the company is planning to bring
Steam to the living room, and it's doing so via a new operating system called SteamOS. The operating system "combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen." Valve plans to make the OS available soon as a free stand-alone OS for living room devices.
With SteamOS installed on a living room machine, users will be able to carry their games, online friends, and Steam features to the television.
Here our four features that Valve plans to bring within SteamOS and the Steam client:
In-home Streaming - You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have – then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
Music, TV, Movies - We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.
Family Sharing - In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.
Family Options - The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.
Valve says that hundreds of games currently run natively with the operating system with announcements to come in the following weeks for games coming to SteamOS in 2014.
Steam is not a one-way content broadcast channel, it’s a collaborative many-to-many entertainment platform, in which each participant is a multiplier of the experience for everyone else. With SteamOS, “openness” means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they’ve been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation.
SteamOS will be available for free download soon. You can check out
more information about SteamOS here.
The
second of three announcements will be made on Wednesday, September 25 at 10 am PT.
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