Gaming direkte fra skyen, eller spilstreaming, er en af branchens mest omdiskuterede emner, men det er faktisk ikke muligt lige nu helt at finde ud af hvordan det egentlig virker i den rigtige verden, da vi fortsat venter på Stadia-lanceringen i november og beta-tests af xCloud.
Men du behøver faktisk ikke at vente, for EA har på overraskende vis afsløret, at en offentlig test af deres egen proprietære teknologi, Project Atlas, nu kan tests. Dette har de afsløret via Medium, hvor CTO Ken Moss siger følgende:
"First, we want to ensure that there is strong quality of service in cloud gaming by being able to adjust to real-world, often less than ideal, conditions such as unstable bandwidth and network strength. Over the last decade, latency and jitter have made cloud gaming a non-starter for any serious gamer. But now that the global cloud infrastructure is finally reaching ubiquity, EA is working on leveraging AWS and the public cloud so that we can deploy as close to the players as possible, even in the face of unstable networks and changes in bandwidth. This player test will help us to better understand how our games perform across real-life scenarios."
FIFA 19, Titanfall 2, Need for Speed Rivals og Unravel er en del af den første test, og du kan skrive dig op til at blive del af programmet lige her. Som The Verge skriver så er tests allerede gået i gang.