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Other than invasive data collection and overlayed advertising what could Google possibly add to game streaming?
Allow you to run a game on $200 hardware that would usually require $1200 hardware.
That's been a thing for years already as bzd referred to, with a mature open source client already waiting to be installed on devices as small as an rPi.

https://github.com/moonlight-stream

Steam does this all directly too now, from pc-to-pc and to Android and soon iOS.

Further efforts to bifurcate the browser market. Keep it classy, Google.
Google certainly has the infrastructure and engineering talent to pull this off. I'm curious to see the results of this experiment.
It will be discontinued as major of G's startups :)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sorry, this project is currently open in the U.S. only