So much of the Stadia launch coverage was written assuming a "Streaming Future," as if they expect the speed of light to "improve."
While the cloud streaming technology was there, playing to Google's strengths
And to Google's dismay, gaming was there, playing to all the weaknesses of "cloud streaming."
From the moment you select a (non-live) streaming video to play, most every bit from the beginning of the stream to the end is known, or can be (barring the invocation of features like automatic on-the-fly quality/bitrate adjustment). The entire movie/show/vlog can and will play with
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:53AM (#61104966)
+this.
On top, I don't know if you've spoken to any Googlers... they are complete wankers. Will tell you to your face how Google has the best and brightest, and your organization must be full of dolts.
At a previous company we attempted to partner with google on a project, who was working with us for having decades of experience in a field they had little of. Yet their entire dev team/management insisted on talking down to all of us and dismissing everything that was told to them. It was their way or the highway because they are google and know all, when probably our teams collective engineering experience was 10x what theirs was. They just have a very pompous attitude
Streamed Games != Streamed Video (Score:5, Interesting)
While the cloud streaming technology was there, playing to Google's strengths
And to Google's dismay, gaming was there, playing to all the weaknesses of "cloud streaming."
From the moment you select a (non-live) streaming video to play, most every bit from the beginning of the stream to the end is known, or can be (barring the invocation of features like automatic on-the-fly quality/bitrate adjustment). The entire movie/show/vlog can and will play with
Re:Streamed Games != Streamed Video (Score:0)
On top, I don't know if you've spoken to any Googlers... they are complete wankers. Will tell you to your face how Google has the best and brightest, and your organization must be full of dolts.
Karma.
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At a previous company we attempted to partner with google on a project, who was working with us for having decades of experience in a field they had little of. Yet their entire dev team/management insisted on talking down to all of us and dismissing everything that was told to them. It was their way or the highway because they are google and know all, when probably our teams collective engineering experience was 10x what theirs was. They just have a very pompous attitude
Years later a coworker at my current