Comments on: Gaikai Video Demo

By: Gaikai – Flash based streaming console gaming at iestyn.net

Gaikai – Flash based streaming console gaming at iestyn.net — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:28:52 +0000

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By: Bif

Bif — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:04:07 +0000

Seems ok, but two things I can do at home that he didn’t address:

1> turn all the details up
2> play at 2560×1600

Looks like he’s playing most of these on, what, a 1600×1200 desktop, in a window that looks to be about 800×600. That’s not how I want to play my games (except maybe tetris).

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:16:28 +0000

Well, OnLive must be a little pissed right now.

Re: Latency — I can only speak for England, but most of the South can easily reach London in 5-6MS. Modern DSL networks are pretty snappy (can’t speak for cable, I imagine it might be a little more convoluted).

I did a lot of work with screencapping and then encoding for broadcast (which is basically what this is), and 1mbps is certainly enough for console-level resolution — and anyway, bandwidth on that scale isn’t a problem — this one always comes down to the hardware/upload bandwidth outlay for the service provider.

By: Raph

Raph — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:07 +0000

Flash penetration is so high at this point… not an issue.

Right clicks are indeed a factor. There is no 100% cross-browser way to handle right-clicks with Flash.

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:57:27 +0000

“no plugin, no install” Well, you need flash.

The ‘right clicks’ seem like a bit issue indeed.

By: Yukon Sam

Yukon Sam — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:38:45 +0000

Skepticism is probably warranted. But I hope it succeeds brilliantly. For one thing, it would mean that we could embed ANY participating virtual world in a web page.

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:58:46 +0000

A contestant of onlive ?

By: Toldain

Toldain — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:19:05 +0000

Well, my reaction is that a 10ms ping time is a fantasy in my life. Ping times to game servers run more like 70ms, and that’s on a good day. It’s like they’ve never heard of control loop latency. (And how bad it is). Color me highly skeptical. There is probably a class of games, mostly turn-based, for which this will work well.

By: System Requirements: None « Level 1 Human

System Requirements: None « Level 1 Human — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:56:03 +0000

[...] System Requirements: None I found this video demonstration on Raph Koster’s site here. [...]

By: PlayNoEvil

PlayNoEvil — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:47:04 +0000

I can’t even get the video of his demo up that quickly…(heck, Metaplace takes a bit of time to load up sometimes at a distance of less than 800 miles ). If the server is virtualized, then it is running a relatively low-spec graphics driver (at least what I’ve seen for VMware and Xen).

Also, how will the application work with “right clicks”? Flash owns the right clicks.