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If you have a fast enough internet, you can right now stream games to your PS4 just like Youtube. In 10-20 years time, we'll be able to stream games running directly on publisher's server farm somewhere.

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Latency will always be a consideration though; the fidelity might get there in terms of audiovisuals, but you can't engineer around the speed of light.

I use a LiquidSky cloud gaming PC as my main games machine. For Overwatch, I have a ping of 1ms, as it's next to the OW servers, 40ms total ping from my home to LiquidSky. it's kind of amazing and works wonderfully

> Latency will always be a consideration though

And it will always be way too high for VR.

They could stream a spherical texture (with depth map). Locally you would only have to render the sphere from the view point of the eyes.

If we can get closer though, I suspect most people wouldn't be bothered.

It would basically double the current latency (about 100ms) by adding a 50ms trip to both receiving and sending. (And that's being generous -- it could easily add 100+ms to each trip.)

Oh. Nice. How do we plan on increasing the speed of light to make the latency low enough?

> In 10-20 years time, we'll be able to stream games running directly on publisher's server farm somewhere.

Nvidia has a game streaming service that does this already. I've only tried it briefly but it worked great.

http://www.geforce.com/geforce-now

Onlive went bankrupt.

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