I think the end game is to tap into that market of users that have generic intel/amd laptops on the lower end. This is a market that is harder to touch for these companies, because well.... they don't spend much on hardware, or don't have much to spend on hardware but still want to game. They seem to think this is the avenue. I have already had a hard enough time getting this to work in my house, with the steambox thingy, let alone adding in internet latency and crappy laptops with poor wireless connections. I had everything hardwired and it still was a poor experience.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:38 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the graphics > processing to the cloud means....what? > > I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware. > It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a > data center where compute loads can be managed. > > Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto > the network? What am I not seeing? > > -Adam > > > On 3/27/2019 10:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Holy bandwidth, Batman! > > > > It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were > electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. > Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb > or a 3 gallon toilet. > > > > Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important > thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone > faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of > leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If > someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed > at. So don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 > Mbps of video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to > join the game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the > people putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in > their living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News > to every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to > room … which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each > screen gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same > show. > > > > I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation > movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces > me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Sterling Jacobson > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now > > > > Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system. > > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native. > > > > This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting > graphics to your local screen. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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