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You can already remote OSes with ease, and have been able to for years. VNC, X11 etc. It's not particularly fashionable, but PC hardware is so cheap you might a

You can already remote OSes with ease, and have been able to for years. VNC, X11 etc. It's not particularly fashionable, but PC hardware is so cheap you might as well buy a new one. You can easily spawn an instance on EC2 and connect to it, but those machines don't have state-of-the art GPUs. The problem they're trying to solve here is that a new gaming PC can cost a couple of thousand dollars, and you have to keep it on the bleeding edge of expensive hardware to play the latest games. It's typical that even the most avid gamers simply can't keep up with all the consoles and PC hardware.

swombat 18y ago
Most OS remoting solutions I've seen are only just usable. I can remote into my Mac Mini into the living room and even that doesn't feel quite right. A 3D shooter, with this kind of latency, would be almost unplayable. And that's just to my living room! If they can get games to play well on the average DSL connection, they can get OS's to feel 100% local, not laggy, like the average VNC session. I'm sure there'd be a big market for that kind of technology, outside of gaming.