Microsoft showed off a new games streaming service at an internal meeting this week, according to anonymous reports, showing off Xbox 360 games played on PC and mobile.
Microsoft demonstrated Halo 4 streamed from the cloud to a low-end PC and a Windows Phone device with an Xbox controller attached via a peripheral.
The service is intended to allow Microsoft to stream games to Windows devices, the report claimed, but has not yet named the prototype system.
Sources said the streaming was smooth, with latency to a Lumia 520 at just 45ms.
Further reports of Microsoft’s rumoured streaming games service have surfaced, suggesting it’s currently being called Rio.
A CNET report corroborates last week’s rumors that Microsoft demonstrated the fledgling product at an annual internal meeting.
Drawing on anonymous sources, the site said the service us codenamed Rio, having moved on from a previous title of Ridgeway,
Further reports quoted by CNET also made repeat mention of latency as low as 45ms, and that the streaming service may be used to make Xbox 360 games available on Xbox One.