Tue, Mar 24, 2009 | 23:46 GMT
GDC: Making OnLive work is a “psychophysical challenge”
OnLive boss Steve Pearlman’s told MTV that making his cloud gaming service work isn’t just hard. It’s “psychophysical”.
“No one has pulled it off because it’s an immensely difficult technical and practical execution challenge, involving deep knowledge and experience across many fields,” said the company’s co-founder.
“To make OnLive work involved fundamental work in psychophysical science; custom chip, hardware and wireless engineering; complex real-time software — from the lowest- to highest-level, and real-time network engineering down to the sub-packet level.
“And, it required a deep understanding of business structure in the video game, Internet, hosting, server and consumer electronic industries. Then, finally, it required an enormous amount of just practical execution: testing the system in hundreds of homes and ironing out every wrinkle to make it operate seamlessly.”
Pow. OnLive, in theory, will let subscribers play high-end games, on demand, on pretty much any screen without the need for expensive hardware.
Hit this for more info, and do read the rest of that interview. OnLive was announced at GDC today and is expected to launch this year.
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Tags: onlive, Steve Pearlman
10 comments
#1
faiizow
24/03/09, 11:52 pm
Wow, so much money/work for something that could possibly fail.
#2
SilentLoner
25/03/09, 12:19 am
I smell bullshit with this guy.
Wind up the Fail imo
#3
Mandaspt
25/03/09, 12:33 am
Well they have some of the biggest publisher with them. Wait and see…
#4
deftangel
25/03/09, 12:37 am
I’ve been wishing all day for someone in the games media to ask a networking expert what they’re take is on this, make it happen Pat!
Personally speaking I don’t think current broadband infrastructure is up to it. A demo in a controlled situation on a LAN isn’t a validation either.
#5
Shatner
25/03/09, 12:52 am
bestarticleivereadonthisfromanimpartialobserverlol
#6
Rhythm
25/03/09, 6:49 am
1up had a preview and said it was laggy on the LAN they were using, so fuck knows how this is going to turn out over broadband :-/
#7
Tonka
25/03/09, 7:47 am
Too bad he didn’t think about the BANDWITH!
#8
Spdrcr1955
25/03/09, 7:50 am
They might have to wait until Obama Nationalizes the Telco’s so that bandwidth is now regulated by the FCC and we all get 20mb like Japan…
#9
Egon Superb
25/03/09, 10:05 am
How does this have anything whatsoever to do with psychophysics, “the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysics
Surely he’s just trying to embiggen his vocabularerorlorry to infundumbibilate us all?
#10
endgame
26/03/09, 6:16 pm
faiizow dude. these ppl r the best of us. they r the ones that push the boundaries and take us further into the future. what they do, it’s called inovation, progress. if everyone would stop doing what they r doing because it “could possibly fail” then humanity would still be in the stone age.
and as for the bandwith, well let’s just say that i live in an eastern europe country (romania) and we have fiber in every major city. i have 5Mb/s for example. and this is one of the cheapest. i seriously doubt that western europe for example, has bandwidth problems.