For many, the future of videogames is in the cloud gaming, the possibility of enjoying titles through the cloud, that is, without using hardware specifically designed to play.
It is the bet, for example of xCloud, a service with which Microsoft will offer its subscribers the necessary elements to play a wide catalog of game titles. Xbox from the comfort of your phones.
In that understanding, elements now emerge that there will be a new option in that arena and it will come from the hand of Apple.
According to the portal Patenty Apple, those of Cupertino patented worldwide since February 2020 a technology that was just published in Europe called ‘Enable interactive services for cloud gaming rendering in 5G systems’.
The report emphasizes that games will be stored, run and rendered in a Remote server and the video results will be transmitted directly to the device, allowing users to access games regardless of the capabilities of said device.
The patent states that the controls and buttons that are pressed will be transmitted to the server where they will be registered, and this in turn will send back the response of the game.
It also stands out that the service would be linked exclusively to devices of 5G, which also comes together with the launch of the first iPhones 5G next october.
‘A potential use case of interactive network-controlled service in the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication networks is the cloud rendering game. He cloud gaming (also called gaming on demand) is a type of online gaming that allows direct and on-demand streaming of video games on different computer devices’, it reads in the patent.
The published patent in Europe it is this:
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