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For the past three years or so, Microsoft has been working on a cloud-gaming service which was known as Project xCloud. Late last year, Microsoft officially launched this service as a competitor to Google Stadia, NVIDIA GeForce Now, and others. But with the official launch came a rebranding, and xCloud is now known as Xbox Cloud Gaming. Jun 29, 2021 The xCloud is accessible via web-based apps such as Safari on iOS devices. You can choose whether you want a controller or touch control for different games. XCloud is powered by a custom Xbox Series X console and can stream 1080p at 60 frames per second for people with high internet speeds. Project xCloud was the name of our public technology preview for cloud gaming that began in September 2019. After gathering feedback from players from around the world during the preview, we built the technology into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate so you can play over 100 Xbox console games on the devices you already have, directly from the cloud.

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By going through a browser rather than the App Store, Microsoft seems set to deliver xCloud game streaming to iOS and iPadOS.

What you need to know

• xCloud Xbox game streaming is shown off on the web in a new report.
• By delivering the service through a web browser, Microsoft can bring xCloud game streaming to iOS and iPadOS.
• We've already gone hands-on with xCloud Xbox game streaming on Windows 10.

Microsoft's cloud streaming platform, codenamed Project xCloud, has been seen in action within a web browser. According to a report from The Verge, Microsoft started testing xCloud through the web ahead of its upcoming public preview.

With browser support, xCloud game streaming will be an option for more platforms and devices, most notably the iPhone and iPad running iOS and iPadOS. Microsoft is not able to get xCloud onto iOS devices through the App Store in a way that it's happy with. To have an xCloud app in the App Store, Microsoft would have to submit all games to Apple for review.

It was already known that xCloud was on its way through the web, but now we have screenshots of it in action. We also know, thanks to The Verge, that the preview is 'getting very close' to rolling out.

Game streaming through xCloud works as you'd expect. You need an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription to play within a browser. The web version has a game launcher and launches games in fullscreen mode. The Verge notes that you'll need a controller to play the web version of xCloud. That shouldn't be difficult, considering Xbox Series X|S controller support is in beta for iOS 14.5. Older Xbox One controllers are already supported.

By moving xCloud game streaming to the browser, Microsoft can deliver game streaming to iOS devices, as well as other devices with supported web browsers. According to The Verge, the web version of xCloud is currently limited to Chromium browsers, such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

This should all look familiar, as it's extremely similar to how xCloud game streaming works on Windows 10. We've already gone hands-on with xCloud Xbox game streaming for Windows 10. The web version of xCloud game streaming will be bundled into the Xbox app for Windows 10 in the future.

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Xbox Game Pass gives you access to dozens upon dozens of games for one monthly fee. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate also adds Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass for PC to the package so you can play online, as well as cloud streaming on mobile devices and, eventually, PC!

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I write software for Windows. Exclusively for Windows. These days, VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop are two very mature virtualization products that allow clients to run virtually any Windows software on the Mac. Right now I have a client reporting an issue under VMWare Fusion 5. It’s an important client, so I’d better support him. My options to reproduce the issue are to buy a Mac Mini, or try out a virtual mac hosting service.

I need the following things

• Root access. I need to install the software I want to test, including VMWare Fusion.
• OS X Mavericks. I need the latest version of the operating system.

I’m reviewing these services based on my needs of occasional full speed access for testing. If you’re after a dedicated server for an application like web hosting, you will have different needs than I have.

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Here’s a list of all of the services that I could find offering roughly the kind of service I’m looking for.

Some of these services offer cheaper plans with a more limited feature set (e.g. no root access). I’ve chosen in most cases to review the cheapest plan that offers Mavericks and that offers root access to your VM.

I had every intention of trying out xcodeclub, vmosx and xcloud. However due to time constraints I ended up testing xcloud only.

xcloud is an offering from innofield who also provide the “Flow App Engine” (flow.ch).

Three plans are offered, all include Mavericks and root access. The cheapest one (“mini”) is 79 CHF, which is USD $~85/month at today’s exchange rates. For that you get 80gb storage, 2gb RAM, and 2 x 2.3GHz CPU cores.
No trial offered, but I asked for a 1 week trial via their contact form anyway. They were happy to oblige. I’ll be trailing a “pro” instance with 160gb storage, 4gb RAM and 4 virtual CPU cores.

From the customer console, I am able to start and stop the virtual instance.

API Capabilities

A support engineer was kind enough to explain some of the capabilities of the snapshot API.

This is just as powerful as AWS or Azure, but it’s for Macs! Brilliant.

This API seems to be undocumented, I expect that this is a work in progress and that we’ll see more of this soon.

Documentation

Xcloud provides excellent documentation for some of the basics. The getting started guide covers every operating system you might consider connecting from. Some of the more common problems you might expect to encounter are well documented.

Connecting to the Instance

I imagine if you’re connecting from a Mac in the first place, this whole thing goes much smoother.

Right from the console, there’s a button to launch an HTML5 VNC client. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the HTML5 client to work. I tried Chrome, IE and Firefox. I got this error in every case.

I was able to connect just fine with TightVNC, however. My experience was pretty slow, but I attribute this to my own ADSL connection rather than anything to do with xcloud. This was just painfully slow.

To resolve this, the Xcloud documentation suggests installing TeamViewer. So I started an AWS windows instance, RDPd to it, installed TightVNC there, VNCd to the xcloud instance (RDP-to-AWS-to-VNC-to-xcloud is actually reasonably fast), installed TeamViewer, then connected via TeamViewer. Phew! Happily, this all works just fine.

The only improvement to this would be if xcloud installed TeamViewer by default. VNC from Windows is just too slow.

Testing

Network connection seems more than acceptable. I was able to download a 4gb ISO from MSDN in less than 20 minutes.

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I have full root access, so installing VMWare Fusion was not a problem. I couldn’t install 64-bit Windows, but the 32-bit version went in just fine.

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The performance of this VM seems to be very good. It has no problem running a VM within a VM. My performance bottleneck is clearly the Internet connection speed to my own office.

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Support

Xcloud support were quite responsive, and provided useful and timely answers to all of my questions.

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Budget conscious? Xcodeclub might work out for you. But if you want a real killer go with xcloud for a few dollars more. You wont be disappointed.