[mirsadm]

This sort of stuff is just not very exciting to me. Latency is very important in gaming. Unless the servers are in the next room the latency will be probably be crappy. Companies have enough issues launching AAA titles these days without streaming them. It'll be like the Sim City launch every time.

The only really exciting thing going on in gaming (for me) is the Oculus Rift. Outside of gaming maybe there are other use cases. Given how powerful and cheap hardware is, I just have a hard time believing it'll take off.

[nl]

https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/today-i-saw-the-future/ is a much better link. To quote:

OTOY’s CEO Jules Urbach demo’ed an entire Mac OS X desktop running in a cloud VM sandbox, rendering via ORBX.js to Firefox, but also showed a Windows homescreen running on his Mac — and the system tray, start menu, and app icons were all local HTML5/JS (apps were a mix ranging from mostly local to fully remoted, each in its own cloud sandbox).

Personally I find that much more interesting than anything to do with gaming.

[sliverstorm]

Why is that interesting? Has VNC been EOL'd?

[nl]

apps were a mix ranging from mostly local to fully remoted, each in its own cloud sandbox

I'm not aware of a way to do that easily using VNC.

Also, is there a good API for programming VNC? So I can inspect frames and act upon them?

[clord]

The demo videos seem to suggest it works at 60hz, including 3d and videos. If true it's a bit of a game-changer — I could move even more stuff onto my home server (assuming we get the bits, and not just this cloud BS)

[tluyben2]

But, for the billions of people not having 100mbit to their house, does it still work? I would like it, but in my winter house in Spain there is no way in hell to get decent bandwidth and that will remain so unless something big happens with EU regulations. 10 years maybe?

So what's the minimum bandwidth you need?

[thenomad]

CastAR? I'd say that's pretty darn interesting.