Dave Perry Shows Off Cloud Gaming Service "Gaikai"

jasoncart writes "Veteran gaming man Dave Perry has shown off his OnLive-rivalling, cloud gaming service called Gaikai in a new video that is drawing a lot of attention. As you can see from the video, Perry plays World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Mario Kart 64, Spore and more — all running on a bog-standard computer through the Gaikai website, itself running in a normal version of Firefox." More details about the service are available at Perry's website. He spoke about Gaikai in an interview a few months ago, and he seems confident that this will work better than OnLive (which we've discussed in the past).

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[Mad Merlin]

Hell, that's practically impossible in lan too, even basic remote desktoping or X sessions are somewhat laggy in lan.

Uh, no. X11 apps forwarded over LAN is 99.9% indistinguishable from local (ie, very fast, the other 0.1% is the <@otherhost> in the titlebar).