Back in ~1998 or so, Dwango[1] provided a similar service, and for the time / capabilities it worked very well. There is still a latency penalty for distance,

Back in ~1998 or so, Dwango[1] provided a similar service, and for the time / capabilities it worked very well. There is still a latency penalty for distance, and I don't see cloud computing solving that, so having these locally makes sense (gamers typically buy < 5ms gear etc) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWANGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWANGO