Google recently introduced new tools to play games on your TV using a Chromecast and a smartphone. While Chromecast not qualified to run the latest resource-intensive games, he can still view HD video streaming from your smartphone. In other words, using the Remote Display Google API, you will enable your smartphone to do all the work, while the results will be displayed on your TV.
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At the last Google I / O, the Mountain View company has unveiled some Android games running on a large television screen. But why stop there? You can also run a classic PC game: Quake III. Indeed, it now supports Chromecast support when you use it with a smartphone or Android tablet.
Google took an existing port to the Android open source Quake III Arena engine and created a fork of it to make it work with a Chromecast . Finally, all this work has allowed to have a solution that allows you to run the 3D shooting game released in 1999 on your smartphone while watching the action on your TV.
You can use your smartphone as a controller game, but you can also pair it with a game controller in Bluetooth or USB, for a gaming experience similar to what is found on a PC or a game console.
While Google has not released a Quake III Application for Chromecast the Play Store, the company has released the source code it uses during a demonstration at the Google I / O. You will need to compile yourself, and copy data from the game Quake III to actually play this shooting game in first person.
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At the last Google I / O, the Mountain View company has unveiled some Android games running on a large television screen. But why stop there? You can also run a classic PC game: Quake III. Indeed, it now supports Chromecast support when you use it with a smartphone or Android tablet.
You can use your smartphone as a controller game, but you can also pair it with a game controller in Bluetooth or USB, for a gaming experience similar to what is found on a PC or a game console.
While Google has not released a Quake III Application for Chromecast the Play Store, the company has released the source code it uses during a demonstration at the Google I / O. You will need to compile yourself, and copy data from the game Quake III to actually play this shooting game in first person.