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I have no Relation to this, heard it on jayztwocents Who going to do videos on it soon.

Best info from horses mouth go to 5 minutes & just listen. goes on for good 20 mins About loads questions
Use hes code to get 50% off for Life

Stream your Games and Apps at up to 144FPS!
High framerate streaming keeps your remote desktop running smooth and fluid.
Never worry about hardware update cycles again. Leap Computing keeps all of your hardware and OS's up to Date in the Cloud
Low Bandwidth
Safe and Sound
On Average, Our 1080P gaming stream uses only about 2 to 3mbps of data; meaning you can use our service almost anywhere!
With enterprise-level uptime and Data redundancy, you can rest assured your data is SAFE and always ACCESSIBLE any time, anywhere.
This is hosted by a well known Server Hosting company With Multiple Datacenters around the world
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http://www.leapcomputing.com/

Everything has been released about it yet, i just heard it on a tech show before NDA is lifted. However,

Key Information.
Up to 144FPS
Choose your Settings, High Res Less FPS Balanced or Lower Res higher FPS depending on your Bandwidth
Full Access to the OS
Game Anywhere? Its in the Cloud :)
Its encoded in H264 to your Computer so requirements are low.
You can Use Any Desktop App on these PC's/Servers (video editing for example)
Stream to Android Devices + Others
Upload Data to the Servers (i guess via FTP)
You Remote Desktop into a FULL OS like Environment
Launching With TitanX
OVERCLOCKING ALLOWED
streaming from the Server is allowed
Upload from the server to youtube directly allowed
Hardware upgrades are included in the price to you get the next Titan XX
Apparently According to Jayztwocents Each person has a dedicated PC each


Website leads to Cloudflare who are huge dataacenter company, now if you are developing this you would use your own Datacanters/company right? :) its a big CDN
http://arstechnica.com/information-...oudflare-launched-10-data-centers-in-30-days/
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North America (10 locations) Operational
Europe (11 locations) Operational
Asia (4 locations) Operational
South America (5 locations) Operational
Oceania (2 locations) Operational
Africa (1 location) Operational
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Server Specs
Leap Computing Cloud Gaming Rig
Nvidia GTX Titan X
$ 29.99 / MONTH
Intel i7 5820K (Hex Core)
Nvidia GTX Titan X
16GB DDR4
128GB HDD
Windows 8.1 Pro
PRE-ORDER NOW
Leap Computing Cloud Gaming Rig
AMD Radeon GPU

$ 29.99 / MONTH
Intel i7 5820K (Hex Core)
AMD Radeon GPU (8GB VRAM)
16GB DDR4
128GB HDD
Windows 8.1 Pro
PRE-ORDER NOW
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Sounds interesting.
How do you put games/steam on it?
And they really should over a lower spec version for like half the price.

And more to the point how long is the offer for, I see normal price is $59.99 a month.
 
Interesting premise for people who cannot afford decent rigs.

Can see it being popular but it's a pass for me.
 
If you are literally given access to a rig such as that, to use whenever you want, how can they make money by only charging 30 dollars a month?
 
Jono8 said:
How are they going to make this remotely profitable?
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I imagine it'll easily be profitable you aren't going to get one machine each.
People will only use it for a few hours a day, so they'll have enough to supply decent performance for as many online at the same time.
And $59.99 normal price.
 
Glaucus said:
Sounds interesting.
How do you put games/steam on it?
And they really should over a lower spec version for like half the price.

And more to the point how long is the offer for, I see normal price is $59.99 a month.
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so its till pre-orders are filled.

It basically uses a Special like RDP Package. A youtuber Jayztwocents is doing a trial & if you use his code you can get 50% discount for life.

his going to do a video on it soon. But he has said he tried cod & the experience was good & is going to do testing on Slower connections.

I imagine it'll easily be profitable you aren't going to get one machine each.
People will only use it for a few hours a day, so they'll have enough to supply decent performance for as many online at the same time.
And $59.99 normal price.
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To the bolded "apparently" they are. they have also said they have ties with GPU parts to help the infrastructure.

Their was also a hint of a AMD 12GB GPU on their site for a while ;)


they already run & own a a large Hosting Company which has been running for many years.

things to note you can Run Photoshop/CAD/CAM on these PC's

So literally a PC in the Sky or Cloud just for you

added videos to main topic
 
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smogsy said:
so its till pre-orders are filled.

It basically uses a Special like RDP Package. A youtuber Jayztwocents is doing a trial & if you use his code you can get 50% discount for life.

his going to do a video on it soon. But he has said he tried cod & the experience was good & is going to do testing on Slower connections.



To the bolded "apparently" they are. they have also said they have ties with GPU parts to help the infrastructure.

Their was also a hint of a AMD 12GB GPU on their site for a while ;)
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So if you pre order it's $30 a month for ever?
And this guys 50% code will also be $30 for lifetime?

I'm not surprised the experience for him is good as no ones on it yet. It's what it like when it launches.
 
Martini1991 said:
How could you not have a machine each?
5 People on 1 Titan X is going to suck for example.
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People don't use computers 24/7 so you might have 10000 subscribers but at peak times have 2000 people on at anyone time. So you only need like 2000 systems.

But smogsy has said you'll apparently get one each.
 
Martini1991 said:
How could you not have a machine each?
5 People on 1 Titan X is going to suck for example.
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This is exactly why i don't get how they will make it profitable. To deliver what they promise, they would literally have to make sure they have one machine per person, which they won't have, so you won't be getting what they advertise.
 
I fail to see how they can claim a bandwith saving when the vast majority of games use nowhere near 3mbs.

Wonder if they're actually 5820ks or just xeons with you paying for the 5820k equivalent share of them.

Isn't this pretty much what onlive did?
 
Everything has been released about it yet, i just heard it on a tech show before NDA is lifted. However,

Key Information.
Its encoded in H264 to your Computer so requirements are low.
You can Use Any Desktop App on these PC's/Servers (video editing for example)
Upload Data to the Servers (i guess via FTP)
 
Any idea when NDA is being lifted. There's so little info on there website.
I can't even see anything about cancellation, unless I'm being blind. Do they take the first $30 straight away?
 
You would have to rent this at 30 dollars a month for about 8 years before they even got the RRP back for the machine. That is not to mention the streaming and other business costs.

Seems too good to be true to me.

Doesn't mention anything about a minimum term or anything like that either. Seems shady.
 
I can't see this working for the same reason as onlive never really took off; latency. It doesn't matter how quick the PC is, or how little bandwidth is required, if it takes 3-400ms from moving your mouse to the picture on screen reacting, it's going to be horrible to play games on.

Potentially great for non-realtime stuff like rendering etc, but no way for gaming...
 
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