{"id":15196,"date":"2019-03-26T08:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:18:38","slug":"new-cloud-gaming-service-takes-on-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/26\/new-cloud-gaming-service-takes-on-tech-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cloud Gaming Service Takes on Tech Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lstlAnPRN3A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">March 26, 2019<\/span>\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0ABYA\u00ae, an online cloud gaming service that will allow subscribers to play their favorite games in real time at the highest quality from just about any web-connected device, launches an open beta program in the US\u00a0<span class=\"xn-chron\">May 2019<\/span>\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2413139-1&amp;h=3774878351&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abya.tech%2F&amp;a=www.ABYA.tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.ABYA.tech<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>For a small monthly fee, subscribers no longer have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on the latest high-powered consoles, gaming-PC&#8217;s, or highly priced single game discs or digital downloads. As easy as playing a movie on Netflix, users can enjoy the latest games played at the highest resolution with near zero latency on everything from their old smartphones to their big screen\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">4K<\/span>\u00a0TV&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>This small startup is competing with the likes of tech giants Microsoft, Sony, Google, and Nvidia in capturing part of the nascent but rapidly expanding market of cloud based gamers. Powered by Amazon Web Services and IBM&#8217;s Cloud, ABYA has developed a near zero latency platform with proprietary tech. Unlike the competition, including the tech behemoths, ABYA does not require a host of clunky, glitch-prone support software to operate\u2014 it is built on a robust bare-metal design. Compared to virtualization based platforms, ABYA\u00ae has a 23% performance increase in CCU and a 66% lower TCO. ABYA enables users to enjoy 1080p 60 FPS gaming with support for\u00a0<span class=\"xn-money\">4K<\/span>\u00a0coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to hard-core gamers, ABYA has positioned itself to host millions of casual gamers who&#8217;ve been unwilling to spend money for expensive gaming systems yet hunger to play the leading graphically intense games on their current mobile devices or computers.<\/p>\n<p>ABYA is led by:\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Franco Miceli<\/span>, CEO, former head of R&amp;D at Plan Ceibal;\u00a0<span class=\"xn-person\">Waldemar Fernandez<\/span>, Chairman, has taken several companies to NASDAQ including Interland, now<a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2413139-1&amp;h=731969049&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.com%2F&amp;a=%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a>Web.com (WWWW); and Nicolas Jodal, creator of the world renown Genexus platform. ABYA is currently entering its first round of investor financing (<u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2413139-1&amp;h=1707236256&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fabya.tech%2Fir&amp;a=abya.tech%2Fir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">abya.tech\/ir<\/a><\/u>).<\/p>\n<p><i><u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2413139-1&amp;h=546830908&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abya.tech%2F&amp;a=ABYA%2C+Inc.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ABYA, Inc.<\/a><\/u><\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>is a\u00a0<span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>\u00a0based company that designs, develops, and integrates technological components to create cloud-gaming solutions and is composed of a team of young engineers who all share a passion for technology and video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK,\u00a0March 26, 2019\u00a0\/PRNewswire\/ &#8212;\u00a0ABYA\u00ae, an online cloud gaming service that will allow subscribers to play their favorite games in real time at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[568,538],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/unnamed-2-2.jpg?fit=400%2C269","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17961,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/22\/google-stadia-ama-wube-throwdown-with-g2a-and-the-epic-games-store-listened\/","url_meta":{"origin":15196,"position":0},"title":"Google Stadia AMA, Wube throwdown with G2A, and The Epic games Store Listened!","author":"DiRT","date":"July 22, 2019","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KMHgqYup380 Welcome to this week\u2019s Line of Sight! 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