14 DAY TRIAL // Valve already announced that it's launching a $50 (€46) device called Steam Link that will help users stream games from one computer to the TV, but that's already possible with Raspberry Pi.
Valve wants to take over the living room, and one way of doing that is by providing users with a simple, clear way of streaming their games from the PC to the TV. Sure enough, this can be done easily with an HDMI cable or by moving the PC closer to the TV, but who wants to have all that mess lying around.
The ability to stream games from the PC via cable or Wi-fi inside a local LAN network is great way to ensure that all of those computers can double down as a console any day of the week and be better at this job.
There are already a few ways of streaming games and Steam has this capability built into the software, but many games are still waiting on the Steam Link. What if you were to find out that Raspberry Pi 2 can be used as a streaming device with very little effort. It's already cheaper than Steam Link and a lot more versatile.
Streaming PC games to Raspberry Pi 2 is easy enough
A couple of guys have made a short tutorial on how to make this happen and you can find their video on YouTube, in the Possibly Unsafe channel. It's not all the difficult, but they are streaming from a Windows machine using a Raspberry Pi 2 powered by Raspbian. There are quite a few steps to take care off, but it's too complicated and the setup can be ready in 30 minutes, with minimal effort.
There is no equivalent for this solution for the Linux OS, although it's pretty certain that someone, somewhere is working on this problem as we speak.
