Microsoft is showing off its fledgling xCloud game streaming service at E3, and I was able to sit down and try it out for myself as well as discuss the tech with its General Manager, Kevin LaChapelle. The “cloud based gaming service” warranted only a brief mention in Microsoft’s E3 conference, so I was pretty excited to discuss some of the details with Microsoft.
The company had setup a small demo table with a handful of Xbox controllers that had Samsung phones attached to them. Though the way the phones were attached to the controller screamed “pre-beta,” the whole setup seemed to work quite well. Picking up the wireless controller I jumped into some Halo 5: Guardians, eager to check out how it felt and if there was any perceptible latency or sluggishness. Microsoft said the games were all being hosted on their Azure data center in the Bay Area, which is approximately 400 miles away.
Source: IGN.com Hands-On with Microsoft's xCloud Streaming Service and Halo 5