LiquidSky turns any device into a gaming PC for free

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LiquidSky is a confusing (but free) answer to NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming service

https://liquidsky.tv/

CES 2017 - With LiquidSky, gamers can transform their old rigs into high-end PCs for free--all you have to do is watch ads.
LiquidSky is a more accessible free-to-play and microtransaction-style answer to NVIDIA's premium GeForce Now game streaming service. Using custom built IBM servers outfitted with high-end CPUs and enthusiast-grade NVIDIA video cards, LiquidSky using the cloud to beam supercomputer power to your outdated laptop, desktop PC, Mac, or Android and Apple mobile devices. Yes, this service will stream PC games from Steam like GTA V on your phone over the cloud, although the touchscreen controls are a bit wonky.

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We are still a long way from where the infrastructure of the internet really makes this useful outside of select areas and select users.
 
Rroff said:
We are still a long way from where the infrastructure of the internet really makes this useful outside of select areas and select users.
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100% agreed was saying this too friends in work the other day after NVidia announced there streaming service.

Remember OnLive! Well things have moved on a lot since then. But it is free too try :D
 
shankly1985 said:
100% agreed was saying this too friends in work the other day after NVidia announced there streaming service.

Remember OnLive! Well things have moved on a lot since then. But it is free too try :D
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OnLive sucked even when I used on a 100mbit JANET connection unfortunately. I can't see this ever working for anything but the most casual of games.
 
FrenchTart said:
OnLive sucked even when I used on a 100mbit JANET connection unfortunately. I can't see this ever working for anything but the most casual of games.
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Yep Online gaming will be a big no No. But for the avg joe out there who just wants to play say witcher 3 I could see this working.
 
I remember OnLive working OKAY (ish) on my old connection. I didn't have a PC capable of playing anything back then, so was pretty sweet to have that option.

Hows this work then? You pay for SkyCredits and then "rent" a PC server from them?
 
gradyhawks said:
I remember OnLive working OKAY (ish) on my old connection. I didn't have a PC capable of playing anything back then, so was pretty sweet to have that option.

Hows this work then? You pay for SkyCredits and then "rent" a PC server from them?
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1 sky credit = 1 hour gaming or you can pay monthly or get 3 hours free each day with adverts.
 
I think if it can play a steam library that they own that has a really nice list of games, I could potentially see myself occasionally using/playing it.

Like I was pretty impressed with OnLive, if this runs better I'm all for it.
 
I doubt they will ever resolve the latency issues for FPS any time soon to be competitive on a pc.

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What does the performance packages mean then, with 240 for the top teir?

EDIT: And I assume it uses your steam/origin library?
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It's just a virtual machine with acess to GPU resources, so you would remote desktop to it as seen in the above video shankly1985 posted, so you would just log in to steam as you would normally.
 
If they could get that down another 20-30ms lower then it could be viable as a replacement for playing games with a controller but nothing like close to what you'd need for keyboard and mouse.
 
Its a great idea, I like how it becomes your own PC desktop and everything. I wouldn't use my main account steam etc though security in this day and age
 
Sp00n said:
I doubt they will ever resolve the latency issues for FPS any time soon to be competitive on a pc.



It's just a virtual machine with acess to GPU resources, so you would remote desktop to it as seen in the above video shankly1985 posted, so you would just log in to steam as you would normally.
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in terms of online gaming its adding a bunch of latency and packet conjestion id guess at
you got a youtube video stream basicaly, then you sending your inputs to this host, which then sends them on to the online server.

if you have a good router it wont be too bad i guess, but if you got a cheap one eugh :/
 
Good or bad router won't matter, it's all down to a solid QoS framework being implemented to prioritise the traffic to each client wanting to game using that service. The more clients you have though, the worse the latency will be. Even still, there will always be latency issues.

I don't think with today's networking hardware this kind of gaming will be possible without latency issues. The kind of vision Liquid sky has will always exhibit latency on current generation client side hardware.

I don't think we will ever get close to the 10-30ms we PC gamers are currently used to, at least not until the next full evolution of PC hardware is the norm.
 
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Hmm..most people who might be interested in PC gaming will probably have a PC anyway for work, browsing, etc. I don't think it costs an arm and a leg in upgrades these days to max most games out at 1080p.

Given the issues related to such a service I don't see its worth really.
 
This sounds too good to be true.
Onlive you had to pay for each game to be able to play it.

There's no way you're getting any serious gaming done for absolutely free, let alone with any subscription cost that isn't astronomical (Onlives subscription list of games were pretty dire)
 
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