OnLive Presentation [Dec 30, 2009, 11:21 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
There's a 48+ minute trailer on Viddler.com where Steve Perlman presents OnLive, one of several services in development to allow cloud-based online gaming. A lot of the clip features the thrills and chills of powerpoint, but a demonstration of the service running on a laptop begins at around the 11:45 mark. The demonstration also shows the voyeuristic capabilities of the service: allowing the ability to observe other players while they play and the ability to view "brag clips" of players' proudest moments on an iPhone. A couple of interesting technical claims are made along the way, including that the service can compress a video frame in about 1 ms, and the contention that 80 ms of input lag will maintain the illusion of local control, which seems a little farfetched. Thanks Slashdot.
lets just pretend that this isn't investment baiting vapour ware for a moment, aside from the concerns of lag and the fact that current gen consumer broadband just won't be up to the job, what kind of capacity will they have to actually host the games? I cam see people logging on wanting to play Crysis 3 and Doom 5 and being told that they are in a queue for the next 2 hours and would they like to play bejewelled instead.
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