Today at the D: Dive into Mobile conference, OnLive demonstrated a few features of their service that have raised a few eyebrows. Not only are they sporting the fastest supercomputer in the world, but the service has implications for more than just starburst games. To demonstrate this power, they’ve launched a free mobile application.
OnLive, Inc., the pioneer of on-demand, instant-play video games, today announced immediate availability of the free OnLive® Viewer mobile app for iPad®, a demonstration of OnLive Viewer beta for the just-released Android™ Samsung Galaxy Tab™ as well as a series of mobility breakthroughs in entertainment and computing.
To put things simply, OnLive has a supercomputer that can do data processing for just about any application, including games. Once the data is processed, this computer can compress the results and shoot them to a client, like the mobile viewing application they are launching www.boomtownbingo.com/costa-bingo-review and they distribute for playing games. This means that the servers can process game play in real time while you control things from the comfort of your own home.
This isn’t limited to gaming, though. During the demo, they launched Internet Explorer on the 144 hz monitors with a Flash-heavy website. Using the mobile viewing application, they were able to interact with the remote Internet Explorer without any major delays. They were also able to view a QuickTime movie remotely with audio and video in sync and could scroll through the video much quicker than you can on services like Netflix. Taking things up a notch, they then demoed Maya (3D animation software):
He switched back to the iPad, and demonstrated Maya running remotely. He was able to pan around and zoom with surprisingly low latency, and the menu controls seemed responsive. He then popped into an Autodesk-built 3D environment (I didn’t catch the name), complete with a complicated skybox, high-res textures, gorgeous clouds, etc. all of which their aforementioned supercomputer was rendering in real time.
One of the more interesting applications for OnLive is in watching others play games in real-time:
“Spectating of other players is by far the most popular OnLive activity after gameplay itself, and the convenience and mobility of iPad and Android tablets adds an incredible dimension to it,” said John Spinale, OnLive VP of Games and Media. “Watching live games and interacting with the people playing them takes social gaming to an entirely new level. It’s unlike any other experience. And people love it, don’t forget it to get all the tips from games like Candy Crush here.”
You can get the app on your iPad here.
via CrunchGear