Can you imagine having a good computer in one division at home and playing your demanding Steam games in your low powered laptop in the living room? Well, that can be a reality quite soon as Steam will allow you to play a game on one computer when the game process is actually running on another computer elsewhere in your home.

"Through Steam, game audio and video is captured on the remote computer and sent to the player’s computer. The game input (keyboard, mouse or gamepad) is sent from the player’s computer to the game process on the remote computer.

Any two computers in a home can be used to stream a gameplay session and this can enable playing games on systems that would not traditionally be able to run those games. For example, a Windows only game could be streamed from a Windows PC to a Steam Machine running Linux in the living room."

Many Steam game developers are working on native SteamOS titles as we write and the existing catalog of games will also be available in the living room. How about that?