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CES 2012: Fancy playing Skyrim on your tablet? Nvidia demonstrates local streaming service Splashtop on Tegra 3

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CES 2012: Fancy playing Skyrim on your tablet? Nvidia demonstrates local streaming service Splashtop on Tegra 3
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During a particularly Inception-like moment in Nvidia’s CES 2012 press conference, the company demonstrated how the app Splashtop can let an Asus Transformer Prime stream information from a PC and affect it on the touchscreen.

That’s not too amazing on the surface - indeed, it was initially demonstrated running iTunes through Windows (through Android).

However the next program that was demonstrated was far more interesting - Skyrim, being streamed direct from a PC and controlled using the Xbox controller plugged into the Tranformer Prime.

Effectively, it’s the same kind of ‘cloud gaming’ that other services like OnLive uses, only performed on a local computer. Great if, like me, you spent a silly amount of money on a new GPU recently.

Splashtop Remote Desktop is available on the Android Market now for £3.21 [download].

Will Wilson
Will Wilson
Will's obsession with gaming started off with sketching Laser Squad levels on pads of paper, but recently grew into violently shouting "Tango Down!" at random strangers on the street. He now directs that positive energy into his writing (due in no small part to a binding court order).