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by stephengillie
3979 days ago
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VGI (VDI for gaming) is the future. We shouldn't have to run on bare metal; we should be able to have a single-VM Host (which theoretically gives full hardware performance) with full hardware pass thru. This gives all the flexibility of VHDs and virtualization without losing the bare metal advantages. Installing a new OS shouldn't mean the current OS knows about it. |
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Game streaming is gathering steam now, don't let the OnLive failure fool you, services like Play-Cast have been running in Korea and other Asian companies for some time now.
They've opted to service their streaming through the carrier (cable companies) instead of over the internet which allowed them to pretty much bypass the latency and bandwidth limitations of open internet routing.
EA is now setting up a similar service with Comcast, and many will follow.
NVIDIA has setup it's "gaming cloud" service for it's Tegra based consoles which also seem to work pretty damn well, and localized streaming on NVIDIA cards has been working very well for several years now.
So sorry while VDI/VGI might be a future like any commercial product if it ever materializes it will be abstracted to a point in which you might not call it VDI/VGI, and no you won't get to tinker with it at that point.