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by dogma1138 3979 days ago
I some how doubt that VDI of any kind is the future in pure home use.

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.