• LiquidSky Demostration - CES 2017
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[video=youtube;VBd9S4Y1_4I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBd9S4Y1_4I&feature=youtu.be[/video] Note: I was a tester of this in it's early beta stage. Probably the best cloud gaming platform I have seen in a long time. Hope this new update brings out enhancements to the bandwidth side of things.
Relevant: [video=youtube;iFKSeRVaoCo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFKSeRVaoCo&t=247s[/video]
Is there still a way to beta test this or is it just waiting for release now? Like if anyone has a beta key that would be really cool
this is really cool but i dont think it would outright replace home PCs and consoles considering it's all streamed online and in turn might become laggy or less enjoyable through connection issues with a pc and direct access that simply won't happen
Not to mention stupid data caps
Hardware latency is minimal on both side most of the time, but like hell I'm going to have a close / reliable connection to a real datacenter on the southern end of Florida. Ran with Steam in-home streaming on a AWS box, but it only works well using vpn to "tune" the network hops. Also depends on what you need out of this machine and for how long, my monthly Azure (one of the cheaper "clouds") charge is $140 for a quadcore w/ 14gb of ram and a decent .5tb of space. I don't see very many people wanting to pay that much when my home desktop is 2 Xeon's 6-cores w/ 96gb of ram for around 5-6 months of the Azure bill and I keep the hardware.
Does anyone have a beta key left over? This sort of service seems perfect for people who are in a situation like I am, my gaming PC broke around half a year ago and since then I've been using a macbook, which is fine for work related stuff but you can't game on it. This would basically allow you to game without needing to purchase a dedicated PC tower. However, how is this different from OnLive and the other things that failed?
[QUOTE=Turing;51670757] However, how is this different from OnLive and the other things that failed?[/QUOTE] I'm wondering this too. Nothing that has been shown differs them. It seems to be aimed at very niche audience which will most likely result in it dying too.
[QUOTE=Turing;51670757]Does anyone have a beta key left over? This sort of service seems perfect for people who are in a situation like I am, my gaming PC broke around half a year ago and since then I've been using a macbook, which is fine for work related stuff but you can't game on it. This would basically allow you to game without needing to purchase a dedicated PC tower. However, how is this different from OnLive and the other things that failed?[/QUOTE] The video I posted above explains it in good detail.
$3000 computer to run BF1 at max? doubtful.
[QUOTE=Covalent;51670795]$3000 computer to run BF1 at max? doubtful.[/QUOTE] Really depends on resolution/framerate. If you want 144hz/4K then it's a whole different story.
[QUOTE=Jelman;51670658]Is there still a way to beta test this or is it just waiting for release now? Like if anyone has a beta key that would be really cool[/QUOTE] They will be locking registration soon until it releases
OnLive 2.0?
[QUOTE=Turing;51670757]Does anyone have a beta key left over?[/QUOTE] I have tried this service from Estonia and the latency is way too big. They need to get a server closer to eastern europe as the closest one is in Germany. I got about ~80ms latency in total [DEL]EDIT: Since they im pretty sure they host their servers on Amazon AWS you can check your pings here [URL]http://www.cloudping.info/[/URL] . Wouldn't even try using it unless it's less than 21ms.[/DEL] They don't, sorry.
[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;51671168]OnLive 2.0?[/QUOTE] Onlive with a better interface, a desktop mode, better latency, the ability to install whatever you want, and arguably better price point. I personally need this since I have a crappy laptop with no money to buy a gaming pc. Here's a bunch of demos I recorded during various stages of its development: [url]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMFw_dCaXe_9EafKt81XRmnGMOEtjrgKG[/url] Here's one of DOOM. [video=youtube;dNlSo5u19Zg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNlSo5u19Zg&feature=youtu.be[/video] Note: these demos do not currently match the current hardware spec of the new LiquidSky, which will be more powerful and produce a higher framerate.
It showed that free instance has 100GB of space? Can it be used as a file storage then? Or what's the catch?
So what is this?
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;51671944]So what is this?[/QUOTE] Watch a video
While it's a pretty cool idea, I personally really don't like the idea of renting something with a bunch of restrictions on top of it, I'd much rather buy a product and then use it however I please. Not to mention the fact that input lag WILL affect you, sure you may be able to reduce it to a quite impressive level for what it is, but you'll never be able to make it as responsive as a local machine. It doesn't matter how much technobabble you throw out there, it's not like you can change how the universe works
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;51672010]While it's a pretty cool idea, I personally really don't like the idea of renting something with a bunch of restrictions on top of it, I'd much rather buy a product and then use it however I please. Not to mention the fact that input lag WILL affect you, sure you may be able to reduce it to a quite impressive level for what it is, but you'll never be able to make it as responsive as a local machine. It doesn't matter how much technobabble you throw out there, it's not like you can change how the universe works[/QUOTE] the only massive restriction is the fact that you cannot torrent anything because you will get perma banned for warez.
[QUOTE=Bitl;51673011]the only massive restriction is the fact that you cannot torrent anything because you will get perma banned for warez.[/QUOTE] 1. How do they check for it? Torrent traffic? What if you use vpn? Defeats the purpose of high speed but theoretically. Do they check your vm for illegal content? 2. What about torrenting legal stuff like software, old games, other abandonware or just stuff that is free? Faq says no torrenting but also no illegal activity. Does that mean no illegal torrenting or no torrenting preiod? And what about security? I'd be skeptical about logging into my expensive steam account in a remote machine. On their faq page it says: [quote]We do not share your data or activity on your SkyComputer unless it is an illegal activity. Also your actions are not being monitored by us unless you break our rules and has been flagged by our systems for illegal or suspicious activity.[/quote] Obviously not for privacy nuts Also something funny I found Isn't this just a remote desktop? [quote]No! Remote desktops connect you to your own computer back home, so you are a subject to those hardware constraints plus the latency of the connection. LiquidSky connects you to our powerful computers in the cloud, and we have the lowest latency out there.[/quote] Sooo... it is a remote desktop. Seems like marketing jargon aimed at uninformed people.
[QUOTE=Covalent;51670795]$3000 computer to run BF1 at max? doubtful.[/QUOTE] BF1 is one of those games you can set to 4k with 200% resolution scaling, so essentially 8k rendering with all that other fancy stuff. If you want a minimm constant of 60fps to add that's not really a stretch.
I totally expected this to somehow be related to the movie of the same title.
so this is basically rent-a-computer
??? [video=youtube;QkPoSMClV1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPoSMClV1U[/video]
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