TACHYONS

i'll just keep paying my friend an dollar an hour to play crysis on his rig over vnc

>>5645668
hey sexy.
also op what did you expect?

>>5645691
>an dollar

I expected this to be a scam to lure in investors, SOMEBODY told me this was physically impossible to accomplish.....

>>5645722
It's not impossible, just fucking stupid.

/r/ing dr. manhattan graph at how onlive works

>>5645722
Just because it's physically impossible doesn't mean they won't sell saps the service.

Essentially what they're doing is sending HD VIDEO to you tv or pc through your internet, live.

Give me a fucking break, not going to happen.

>>5645722

Enjoy your latency and bandwidth restrictions.

I'd be surprised if they could get quake 3 to run over this service at a decent resolution.

Best possible use of tachyons ever.

>>5645747

they've shown the technology multiple times and it apparently works adequately

hard to argue that it's impossible after they've shown it can be done

>>5645739
Not if you're a game company. Then you can try and discourage console and PC game sales entirely, and only ever rent your games!

>>5645761
thanks

Yo g we need some tachyons up in this motherfucker.

>>5645767
every time they've shown it, it was connected directly to a server in another room in the same building. There is already free software that lets you do that.

>>5645767
they might as well have been playing it with a really long KVM switch

>>5645777
agreed, give me something 3 miles away and lets see "no lag" and even then, i will still be skeptical

>>5645777
they've shown it operating remotely in random places, go look it up

>>5645748
The problem isn't streaming video you dumbfuck, the problem is the input lag. There is no workaround for this and it will be a big issue.

>>5645791
how far away from the servers were these "random" places?

Well, most people are pretty damn skeptical about this.

But we'll get the answers soon. The service is planned to be released in this winter.

>>5645801

see

>>5645753

Unless they seriously rape the image quality / framerate, nobody will have the bandwidth required.

The mouse lag in shootan gaymes is going to be hilariously bad, there's going to be lawsuits, this will end in tears and rage.

>>5645801
They're both serious problems, but the video is the most easily proveable one, as demonstrated in
>>5645753.

Theoretically, they could make an onlive "Game rendering center" right in your neighborhood and you could have a ping below 10, with minimal input lag. We know this won't happen, but it's theoretically possible.

It is not possible, period, to stream the kind of quality of video they say they can stream over the internet. That's why I chose to address this issue instead of the input lag.

Funny how I can take a picture, of 6mb, and compress it easily to just a few hundred KB and uncompress it in like a second.

But you know, no company in the world uses compression for anything, and there's no possible upgraded compressioning past 7zip, right?
And it's impossible to develop anything better?
It's really a sad day for technology, we can't progress anymore. ):

> you fuckers
when it happens, shit brix. Ain't happened yet.

>>5645848
a picture =/= frames of crysis

a second = alot of lag if u didnt notice

They'll prob pull the youtube "HD" thing where it looks good but is nowhere near the actual resolution or bitrate.

>>5645832
Shouldn't these issues be investigated by the FCC before they allow them to start their service?
Last I checked false advertisements were illegal.

>>5645848
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer

Someday...perhaps.

>>5645848

>in like a second.

A second for each frame? Yeah that sounds like a winning strategy for an online gaming service.

>>5645864
They've got magic technology, of course.

The FCC couldn't and wouldn't shut them down until they actually failed to make the claims they're making.

>>5645854
not getting the point that things can be improved upon =/= OnLive is impossible
5 years ago it took me like a minute to do any good compression.
Now it takes less than a second and I could probably compress about 50 pictures at once if I made a batch file.

What makes anyone thing that something better hasn't been developed?

maybe the monthly charge is for super charged onlive tachyon interbutts v4.0 MODPROGAMERx_TREEM.

>>5645864
there fail-safe false advertisement is that the quality of gameplay is based soley on your bandwith.

>>5645881
I'm sorry you're still using your 15 year old processor that can only handle one thing at any given time. ):
But they have these like, new fangled cpu's now, that can like do this thing like like like multitasking, and can do many things at once. :)
It's pretty cool.

I like how you fags get so defensive with this Onlive shit

Personally I hope it works, I think it be pretty cool.

>>5645880
I read an article somewhere about some Europeans or something that did a small scale QC. It amounted to launching molecules off a skateboard ramp and seeing what happened, IIRC.

>>5645923
you missed that guys sarcasm

durrr hurr humans cant fly.,.... DAT IS IMPOSASBLES durp

>>5645939
>implying humans can fly

THIS JUST IN EVERYONE
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS ARE FINALLY AT A STAND STILL
EVERYONE BUY i7's AND i5's NOW CAUSE THERE WILL NEVER BE A BETTER CPU

AND GET SAVING FOR THOSE 5XXX and 3XX SERIES CARDS CAUSE THEY'RE THE END OF THE LINE

OH, AND HURRY UP AND GET WINDOWS 7 AND SNOW LEOPARD, THOSE ARE THE LAST OS'S THAT WILL EVER BE MADE

They already tested this.
It worked, but barely. Latency on the controls was okay but not good enough for online FPS, and the graphics were atrocious.

>>5645936
Actually, he missed the point, and the common sense of things flew over his head.

>>5645923
> :)
Ooook...
>):
Get the fuck out.

>>5645892
Until you figure out how to alter the speed of light, or get around it, onlive is basically impossible.

Input lag is a serious detractor to any game. Waiting up to a 10th of a second from pushing a button to having the game react is completely unacceptable.

Good monitors have less response time than 10ms, hell my HDTV has 8ms. Start throwing network lag into it and any game suddenly becomes utter shit due to display lag.

>>5645982
They've already broken the speed of light, scientists and folk designed a machine that pushed radio waves faster than the speed of light.

>>5645982
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/faster-than-light-radio-waves-could-revolutionize-computer-indu
stries-20090630/

>>5645982
looks like were going to be streaming doom 3 from onlive

>>5645923
So let me get this straight.

You think that ONLIVE has, on its own, and for the sole purpose of remote gaming, developed a way to receive input, render a game image, somehow compress the image to a reasonable size (let's say 200kb), and send it to player, where the player's tiny little onlive box then decompresses it on the fly. This happens 60 times a second.

Now, even if they could compress the image to a sixth of its size and send it to the player for decompression on a gadget with little processing speed, this would still be a video stream of 12mb per second, approximately.

I'd like to see how they could do all this with an input lag of under a reasonable 100ms.

>>5645956
Things are slowing down to the "good enough" range. There will still be improvements, mostly in dropped prices. In five years, you may be able to get a netbook for $150 with quad-core CPU with 6GB of RAM, 240GB SSD, gaming GPU, etc. That will be good enough for the majority of people... like 70%.

The rest of us who do other shit than just internet/gaming/video watching will still want CPUs with 32 general purpose cores and 256 streaming vector cores.

>>5646032
it's them TACHYONS they are magic