R/xcloud Community ran subreddit for Microsoft's cloud gaming service Project xCloud. With Project xCloud (Preview) players can play Xbox games on their mobile phone or tablet directly from the cloud, including favorites such as Devil May Cry 5, Tekken 7, Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, and many more — no waiting for downloads. Xbox Cloud Gaming is our technology that allows you to play over 100 console games on the devices you already have with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and a compatible controller. As part of your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership, you can enjoy the console games you love, the people you want to play together with, on the devices you already have, all.
After more than two months of beta testing, Microsoft is readying the launch of its xCloud Game streaming platform on Safari, Edge, and Chrome in the “next few weeks.” This comes after Microsoft had been pushing to bring xCloud to the App Store.
The company made the announcement today in a blog post about “bringing the joy and community of gaming to everyone.” Here’s what Microsoft said:
In the next few weeks, cloud gaming on the browser will open to all Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members. With Edge, Chrome, and Safari support, players will be a click away from gaming on almost any device.
Microsoft wanted to offer the xCloud Game platform as an app on the App Store, but since Apple policies don’t allow app stores inside the App Store, the Redmond had to scrap its plans last year.
In April, Microsoft announced it was going to open the beta test program of xCloud Game on web browsers. To enjoy the platform, users must be an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscriber.
The public beta offered access to over 100 Xbox Game Pass titles. The official Game Pass has around 300 titles that are expected to work with xCloud Game without the need of a TV or a monitor, just a web browser on your iPhone and iPad, for example.
In the blog post, Microsoft also noted that “Cloud gaming through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will launch in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Japan later this year” as well.
With E3 starting this Saturday, Microsoft could be preparing to give more details about the xCloud Game at the conference.
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People
Dan Williams (Cornell University)
Hani Jamjoom (IBM Watson Research)
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Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University)
Past Collaborators
Eslam Elnikety (KAUST)
Mohamed Eldehiry (KAUST)
Hai Huang (IBM Watson Research)
Overview
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds are evolving from offering simple on-demand resources to providing diverse sets of tightly-coupled monolithic services. Like OS kernels of the 1980's and 1990's, these monolithic offerings, albeit rich in features, are significantly constraining users' freedom and control over the underlying---cloud---resources. For example, we are unaware of a true hybrid cloud, where its users can migrate virtual machines freely across clouds. This paper argues for a new type of IaaS cloud, an xCloud, that builds on ideas from extensible OSs to give users the flexibility to install custom cloud extensions, which can address the limitations outlined above. We describe the design space for xClouds, including a practical approach for transforming today's public clouds into xClouds.
Code Release
Code to transform public clouds into xClouds is now available! The release consists of patches for Xen and Blanket drivers for Linux. Begin by downloading the tarball at http://code.google.com/p/xen-blanket/, and check out the README for instructions of how to run Xen inside your own EC2 instance!
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Publications
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Dan Williams, Hani Jamjoom, and Hakim Weatherspoon. The Xen-Blanket: Virtualize Once, Run Everywhere. In Proceedings of ACM EuroSys, Bern, Switzerland, April 2012.
Dan Williams, Eslam Elnikety, Mohamed Eldehiry, Hani Jamjoom, Hai Huang, and Hakim Weatherspoon. Unshackle the Cloud! In Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), Portland, OR, June 2011.