In recent decades, technology has been making plenty of innovative changes to our everyday lives; especially when it comes to our televisions and stereos. And now Google is making some changes to our board games in their effort to create a new social gaming experience.
Recently Google announced that it has added dozen game applications (including faster versions of Monopoly and Scrabble) to its Chromecast streaming device. In this way you will be able to turn your living room TV into a game board that will entertain your family and friends.
What is Chromecast?Have you ever crowded around a phone to watch a YouTube video or passed your phone around the living room to show off a funny meme? If so, you are aware of how annoying this can be. Thankfully, Chromecast, Apple TV and other similar devices were created to fix those inconveniences by projecting a small screen onto a bigger screen.
The Chromecast is a small piece of hardware that looks like the regular thumb drive we use in our computers as a storage device. However, instead of being used on a computer, the Chromecast device plugs into most high definition TVs so that they can be connected to the internet. Once it has been plugged in, you are granted the ability to stream content from your mobile phones and tablets onto your television screens. In addition, Chromecast works with a growing number of music and movie apps like Pandora, Netflix, Hulu Plus, and HBO Go.
Recent Developments Now, Chromecast it’s to trying to make games the new frontier in streaming device technology; albeit on a relatively small scale. In order to branch out into this newly developed niche, they are adding 12 game apps to their device’s menu. The only caveat is that, in order to play these games on Chromecast you will have to use both your phone and TV.
Thankfully, this concept isn’t as confusing as it may sound. Let’s take the game Scrabble Blitz for example; it is a timed game where opponents go head to head to spell as many words as possible using only a handful of letters. If you wanted to play this game on Chromecast, you would have to download the game onto your smartphone. Once this is completed and you have connected to Chromecast, you will have to spell the words on your smartphone and they would show up on the TV.