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Hi Hackernews, we just released software for the Raspberry Pi that lets you connect to a gaming PC and play any PC game at 60 FPS, low latency and at 1080p. In this article, we explain how we achieved it, and some changes we made to SDL to make it all work. Would love to know your thoughts. Thanks

This seems too good to be true. Do you have any benchmarking stats on latency/framerate? If this is for real, then I expect some serious changes in the games industry!

Thanks. We hope so too :). Latency without any networking will be under 10 milliseconds, so you can expect to play at 60 frames per second at 1080p with less than 10 milliseconds of latency while within your own home if you're connecting to your gaming PC there.

Which games can I play?

We always test with Overwatch, but any game works. We spent a lot of time making sure relative mouse mode and absolute mouse mode would work perfectly on the Pi.

You can also check out a video of us playing Witcher 3 here - https://vimeo.com/203166740/1d1f8e50d8

or playing Overwatch while being interviewed by AWS - https://www.periscope.tv/w/1RDGlRpQlzRxL

This sounds awesome :)

Thanks! Check it out when you have a chance. Hope you like it :)

The Thin Client – Start Playing PC Games on Your Raspberry Pi