Remember OnLive, the online gaming service that will revolutionize the way we play? It's finally available and we get a new demo showing how the device we play with will become completely irrelevant. You'll be able to play whatever you want wherever you want!
See how simple it is to play "anything" on an iPad. :)
Now, all they need is to create an infrastructure that can guarantee lag-free gaming for players worldwide.
How to vaporize 23 laptops, iPhones and iPods in half-a-minute; the world's most famous webpage is now patented; internet rendered games get closer; and much more...
Gone in 31 seconds
While most people carefully consider acquiring a new Macbook Pro, iPhone or iPod for several days (or even weeks) there are people that certainly have a faster (albeit illegal) way to do it. Check the following video to see how a group of thieves took 23 laptops, 14 iPhones and 9 iPods from an Apple Store in New Jersey.
I can't really say I'm fond about these kinds of patents - hey, let me page a blank page and claim royalties for it! - but... it's up to them.
I just hope they don't get to become some patent nazis likes some other companies out there - after all, it's all about the "do no evil" motto... right?
OnLive begins beta testing
Good news for all my american readers. Remember OnLive, that internet based game rendering that provides high quality graphics without requiring any of the high-end hardware?
I believe this is the kind of technology that will make be running everything in the near future, from games to plain regular "computing". We'll just need a "dumb" efficient terminal, without power-hungry hardware, and everything will be stramed from those big servers out there.
(And stop worrying about upgrading our hardware to run the latest games :)
Keyboard with trackpad
If you hate having your hand jumping back and forth between mouse and keyboard, this is the keyboard you need:
The Adesso AKB-440 offers an integrated trackpad in the area you'd usually find your cursor keys. Sounds like a good option for me... Care to send me one for reviewing? :)
Will this be the end of hyper-powerful 3D gaming cards as we know it?
If OnLive delivers, it may very will be a turning point in the gaming industry. They claim to be able to stream video games into your house, but in a slightly different way than you'd might expect.
Instead of transferring the game so it can be played in your computer, they'll be streaming realtime interactive video.
Meaning, no matter how old your computer is, you'll be able to play the latest and greatest 3D games with all the high quality details turned on. Playing Crysys on your Eee PC won't be a problem anymore.
All you need is a 1.5Mbps pipe for receiving the video (or up to 4-5Mbps for high-def video.)
A more critical aspect of all this is the low latency connection required. As everything you do must be sent to the remote server, processed, rendered, and then streamed back to your computer - this round trip must be done as quickly as possible.
OnLive say they've been able to reduce all that to just just a single millisecond! (Not including the internet lag, of course.)
I've been telling my friends that this day would come - I just didn't exepect it would arrive this soon.
