Streaming games platform debuts
A new video gaming system has been debued by ex-Quicktime developer, Steve Perlman, after spending 7 years in development.
The system, known as OnLive, claims to stream games seamlessly to either a Mac, PC or TV (with attached Onlive MicroConsole). They claim that “OnLive turns games into video data sent across the net to a hardware add-on, or software plug-in, which decompresses the data back into video”.
Sounds great huh? Well, I’m guessing that the proof will be in the pudding here. True HD supported graphics streamed in real-time sounds pretty audacious to me, especially in Australia.
They’ve already signed up the big content partners including EA, Ubisoft, Take2, Eidos, Atari, Codemasters, Epic and THQ to deliver games such as Burnout, Fear 2, Tomb Raider: Underworld and Crysis: Warhead.
Read more about it on the BBC website.
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