Additionally, they have announced their first full-on VR game for 2019 as a flagship title among several games they are working. They have also announced their new VR headset, Valve Index, which replaces the HTC Vive as their own exclusive device that appears to be cutting-edge. Streaming is probably not high up in Valve's priorities right now, focused as they are on overhauling Steam for both gamers and developers, likely gearing up for the competition that has emerged last year when Epic Games Store was announced and started securing exclusives. The app would have been available sooner, if not for the fact that Apple rejected it over 'business conflicts.'

The technology is already pretty old, so much that the Steam Link device has been discontinued, and our TechRaptor staff writer correctly predicted the release of an iOS app. Otherwise, you can expect some input lag. We’ve yet to use the app for ourselves, but we’ll be sure to post our impressions of the app’s performance when we do.For best performance, you'll want a computer plugged with an Ethernet cable to your 5Ghz WiFi router, and to keep your iOS device within a reasonable range of your router. Most times, if there’s money to be made on hardware, a company will take it. More importantly, it shows that Valve is willing to forgo releasing frivolous hardware if it can instead reach more customers - an approach that many companies might be afraid of taking.

It’s the evolution of the Steam Machine idea brought to mobile phones, a device everyone owns. On paper at least, the idea of a mobile Steam Link app is great. Valve didn’t offer much in the way of additional details - but, with the release date for the app so close, Valve would probably rather us wait to test the software for ourselves instead of posting a convoluted explainer that could be subject for misinterpretation. The news of the two new Steam apps was delivered via a short blog post. Goodbye Steam Machines, Hello Steam Handhelds Valve also announced an app for Steam Video, which brings the Steam video library with to your Android and iOS devices over Wi-Fi or LTE as well.Īccording to a follow-up email from Valve, the Steam Link app is targeting a release date somewhere during the week of May 21, with a public beta available for Android owners at some point in the near future.

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