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David Perry's Gaikai service is very ambitious. It's an exercise in "cloud gaming" that runs games on distant servers, sending the live video feed of the game to a web browser. It places the burden of computing power on Galkai and only asks the user to have enough bandwidth to handle the streaming video. Keyboard and mouse inputs are sent to the server, take effect, and the changes are sent back.

The service was privately demoed at E3 2009, but was not shown to the public.

But will it work? If this new video from David Perry is to be believed... it just might:

Gaikai Technology Demo (JULY 1, 2009) from David Perry on Vimeo.

In the video, you can see David running Spore <span class="tooltip-content"> <span class='tooltip-tab-container'> <span class='tooltip-tab-wrapper active' onclick='tooltiptab(this);'><span class='tooltip-tab PC'></span></span> </span> <span class='tooltip-active tooltip2 PC'><div class='tooltip-name'><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/index/" title="Spore">Spore</a></div><hr /><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/news/" title="Spore news">News</a></h6> (60)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/previews/" title="Spore news">Previews</a></h6> (10)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/review/" title="Spore review">Review</a></h6></li> </ul></span><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/videos/" title="Spore videos">Videos</a></h6> (35)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/screenshots-and-images/" title="Spore screenshots &amp; images">Screenshots</a></h6> (25)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/30029/spore/cheats/" title="Spore cheats &amp; walkthroughs">Cheats and Walkthroughs</a></h6> (11)</li> </ul> </span><div style='clear:both;'></div></span> </span><div class="arrow"></div> , EVE Online <span class="tooltip-content"> <span class='tooltip-tab-container'> <span class='tooltip-tab-wrapper active' onclick='tooltiptab(this);'><span class='tooltip-tab PC'></span></span> </span> <span class='tooltip-active tooltip2 PC'><div class='tooltip-name'><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14308/eve-online/index/" title="EVE+Online">EVE Online</a></div><hr /><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14308/eve-online/news/" title="EVE+Online news">News</a></h6> (17)</li> <li><h6>Previews</h6></li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14308/eve-online/review/" title="EVE+Online review">Review</a></h6></li> </ul></span><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14308/eve-online/videos/" title="EVE+Online videos">Videos</a></h6> (20)</li> <li><h6>Screenshots</h6></li> <li><h6>Cheats and Walkthroughs</h6></li> </ul> </span><div style='clear:both;'></div></span> </span><div class="arrow"></div> , World of WarCraft <span class="tooltip-content"> <span class='tooltip-tab-container'> <span class='tooltip-tab-wrapper active' onclick='tooltiptab(this);'><span class='tooltip-tab PC'></span></span> </span> <span class='tooltip-active tooltip2 PC'><div class='tooltip-name'><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/index/" title="World+of+Warcraft">World of Warcraft</a></div><hr /><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/news/" title="World+of+Warcraft news">News</a></h6> (140)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/previews/" title="World+of+Warcraft news">Previews</a></h6> (9)</li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/review/" title="World+of+Warcraft review">Review</a></h6></li> </ul></span><span class='tooltip-column'><ul> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/videos/" title="World+of+Warcraft videos">Videos</a></h6> (101)</li> <li><h6>Screenshots</h6></li> <li><h6><a href="http://g4tv.com/games/pc/14539/world-of-warcraft/cheats/" title="World+of+Warcraft cheats &amp; walkthroughs">Cheats and Walkthroughs</a></h6> (207)</li> </ul> </span><div style='clear:both;'></div></span> </span><div class="arrow"></div> , and even Mario Kart 64 (running on an emulator) in his browser. He claims that it only requires around 1Mbit/s of bandwidth. Do you believe this or do you think David is using some smoke and mirrors?

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