Dave Perry reveals Gaikai, Cloud gaming service

[CptStern]

Veteran gaming man Dave Perry has shown off his OnLive-rivalling, cloud gaming service called Gaikai in a new video that is drawing a lot of attention. As you can see from the video, Perry plays World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Mario Kart 64, Spore and more — all running on a bog-standard computer through the Gaikai website, itself running in a normal version of Firefox.

watch video:

http://play.tm/news/25439/dave-perry-shows-off-gaikai/

about the service:

Our Gaikai team has been working really hard for the last year, we demonstrated our tech privately at GDC, then LIVE (hands on) to most of the major publishers at E3.

For the people that visit my blog, I wanted to flick through some demos and show the experience under the following conditions:

(1) No installing anything. (I'm running regular Windows Vista, with the latest Firefox and Flash is installed.)

(2) This is a low-spec server, it's a very custom configuration, fully virtualized. Why? To keep the costs to an absolute minimum. We had 7 Call of Duty games running on our E3 demo server recently.

(3) Data travel distance is around 800 miles (round trip) on this demo as that's where the server is. I get a 21 millisecond ping on that route. My final delay will be 10 milliseconds as I just added a server in Irvine California yesterday, but it's not added to our grid yet. (So this demo is twice the delay I personally would get, the good news is I don't notice it anyway.)

(4) This server is not hosted by a Tier 1 provider, just a regular Data Center in Freemont California. Also, I'm not cheating and using fiber connections for our demos. This is a home cable connection in a home.

(6) We designed this for the real internet. The video compression codecs change in realtime based on the need of the application (or game), and based on the hardware & bandwidth you have. (For Photoshop we make sure it's pixel perfect.)

(7) Our bandwidth is mostly sub 1 megabit across all games. (Works with Wifi, works on netbooks with no 3D card etc.)

http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/gaikai_-_video/

I see this as an eventuality

 

[PimpinPenguin]

I see this becoming more of a success than ONlive.

 

[Gargantou]

I see myself still not being interested in or sold on the concept, but I guess it might be related to the fact I'm one of those people that are into owning things, for example I never rent games, if I don't buy them(or can't for one reason or another), then I simply acquire them using other, cheap methods.

I really don't see this having any appeal at all to core gamers, but having a great appeal to non-core gamers, like families, proletarians etc.

 

[Kyorisu]

I see this failing.

 

[CptStern]

I see myself still not being interested in or sold on the concept, but I guess it might be related to the fact I'm one of those people that are into owning things, for example I never rent games, if I don't buy them(or can't for one reason or another), then I simply acquire them using other, cheap methods.

I really don't see this having any appeal at all to core gamers, but having a great appeal to non-core gamers, like families, proletarians etc.

I can see this appealing to core-gamers ..I mean most go through 2-5 titles a month and probably skip some due to financial reasons. i bet this would go a long way because they could have it as a rental service. say $20 a month for unlimited/set number of games. who would pass that up?

 

[Warped]

I'd give it a whirl. in fact wouldn't this hurt the pc industry if its successful?

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd give it a whirl. in fact wouldn't this hurt the pc industry if its successful?

Isn't that said about every service like this? So far so good!