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Coming Soon To Chromebooks – Cast Your Entire Desktop

June 12, 2015 by Dinsan Francis Updated on: 11:16 am 7 Comments

Looks like Chrome OS is getting native Google Cast support, baked right into the operating system. The newest optioned that showed up in Chrome OS canary makes me think that.

The latest Canary channel release of Chrome OS has a cast option, for the entire desktop. And it is not from the Google Cast extension (that has been around for a while). This option shows up right on your system tray, where your settings and profile icon etc shows.

Here is how it looks like:

cast-chromebooks-desktop-1

Once you click that option, you will be shown all the Google Cast ready devices in your network. Like so:

cast-chromebook-desktop-2

In other words, Chrome OS is going Google Cast ready. I think that’s the big takeaway from this. Yes, the video player already supports Google Cast natively, but this change makes the entire operating system Cast ready.

Can’t wait to test this!

Thanks a lot Brandon Giesing! ( and Craig Tumblison for the technical consultation!)

Correction – this requires the Google Cast extension.

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About Dinsan Francis

Content Developer and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. Chris DiMisa says

    June 12, 2015 at 12:25 am

    *”a lot smoother,” or, “a lot more smooth.”

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    • Dinsan says

      June 12, 2015 at 11:04 am

      Thank you Chris! Will edit now.

      Reply
    • Dinsan says

      June 12, 2015 at 11:07 am

      Chris, I had to remove that sentence because of the correction Brandon mentioned above.

      Thanks again 🙂

      Reply
  2. Brandon Giesing says

    June 12, 2015 at 2:44 am

    CORRECTION!!! Aparently it DOES require the extension installed….

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    • Dinsan says

      June 12, 2015 at 11:04 am

      Will edit. Thank you again!!

      Reply
  3. topgun22x says

    June 16, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Does the video player support cast?? It was removed. Doesn’t work now. Not even when you enable the flag. Am I missing somwthing?

    Reply
  4. Clay for SndControl says

    June 16, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    The Chromecast beta extension has been great for me on my windows machine. I use it with our music management chrome extension SndControl 1-Click Music Manager and play music on my TV. It’s great. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sndcontrol-%3E-1-click-stre/dckjilenognecmpjjpeckgekikdpchli

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