Valve plans to give gamers another reason not to leave the house and meet real people.
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On the Steamworks developer site, the company announced Remote Play Together, which will allow gamers to enjoy local co-op over the Internet.
“Today our team announced anothera great new feature coming to Steam - Remote Play Together. It will allow friends to play local co-op games over the Internet as if they were in the same room together,” wrote Valve UI designer Alden Kroll.
Today our team announced another great newplatform feature that will be built into Steam: Remote Play Together. This will allow friends to play local co-op games together over the internet as though they were in the same room together. https://t.co/jEZyGoXEfc
- Alden Kroll @ PAX Australia (@aldenkroll) October 10, 2019
According to Kroll, the feature works with projects that support shared or split screen play. The technology broadcasts your screen to your friend, collects his data and sends it to you.
According to PC Gamer, the Remote Play Together beta testing will begin on October 21st.