[martin-adams]

It’s more subtle than that, imagine being able to edit a high poly count mesh on a low spec machine. So not just final rendering, but really the main application state. This is what something like After Effects could benefit from.

When I tested a full ray-traced FPS demo in the browser and never noticed that the render was done server side, that’s when I believed this is possible.

[pier25]

Yeah this too. Basically offload anything that needs more CPU/GPU.

We could be working on high poly files with global illumination and whatnot in a Chromebook.

I'm surprised big companies like Apple, Adobe, or Autodesk haven't solved this already. I remember having a conversation with a friend about this exact topic back in 2016.

[clementpiki]

Google tried this approach few years back with gaming: Google Stadia. The concept was about rending complex 3d games in real time on the cloud. It did not work out well commercially, but I think the tech was ok.