In-home-streaming is a little confused at the moment. What's its purpose? Its for people with Windows or Mac computers running Windows or Mac games using Steam client. Games are streamed from these computers to a Steam Machine (in the living room, running SteamOS and connected to the TV)...
Miracast may be in the future but for the Beta I'd get another HDMI cable ready.
It'll be interesting to see what the LAN requirements are; hope its not as strict as nVidia's Gamestream. But then again I think the tech will be very similar (the same?!) as nvidia's. For the Beta anyway.
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Excellent stuff Marlamin (sorry for pinching an old photo). But its a rather important app (the streaming/encoding one). Do you know anything about it? Its not from nVidia is it?
Good to see progress being made. The obvious starting point with SteamOS is to look EXACTLY like Steam(Big Picture) on Linux and, I guess, why should Valve start off with anything else? Still hoping for a SteamOS Beta release in the next few weeks. As Valve said "SteamOS will be available soon...