Liquid Sky, The GRID like streaming service for your games on any device!

[XTankSlayerX]

 

Liquid Sky's catalog, You can use your own STEAM account as well.

 

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what LiquidSky has to say for itself "We’d like the world to share. Our mission is to drastically lower the cost of both software and hardware for computer users everywhere. We hope to convert the world to “thin clients” by migrating hardware to the cloud, or in our case, the sky! Sharing hardware will dramatically lower costs. And by allowing users to "rent" programs the same way you might rent a movie from Netflix, software can also become a shared resource. We also seek to provide users with a lightning fast internet experience. No more buffering videos, viruses, slow downloads, or blocked websites. Three of the main problems surrounding the consumer thin-client or cloud gaming world have been latency, input, and catalog. We have solved all three."

 

 

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Aside from games, they have apps as well.

 

TL:DR (Yes, they actually have this on their website)

• This is NOT a remote desktop service, we have the hardware

• Get around firewalls and blocked websites at work or school

• Run any program or game on your phone, without a computer

• Play any Steam game on any web enabled device what's this?

• Sky accelerated web browsing what's this?

• No more buffering videos

• No more slow downloads

• No more viruses

 

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Holy balls. This looks very interesting... I would love to get into the beta right away to test the waters for you guys but I cant post any referral links or ask to be referred...

 

To whom ever gets into the beta, tell us how it is!

 

@LinusTech @Slick @nicklmg

[Agent181]

Looks cool

[cesrai]

Neat.

[ShadowCaptain]

this is how I have always envisaged the future of computing

 

Everything will be cloud based, meaning super cheap light and long battery life devices, and powerful hardware normally not accessible to people who cannot afford a top end PC

 

awesome, the only issue with this approach is the internet infrastructure is not there yet, when it is though.. in the future it will be awesome

[CornOnJacob]

This is exciting, but since my friends and I can't even use Steam Broadcasting because our internet is too slow, I don't know how we could ever use this service to stream games.

[JAKEBAB]

So its not just those games in the first pic its any? That will be cool especially if u just invest in like a 4k monitor and stream to it so u dont have spend thousands on a rig.

[Psykomantis00]

I'm skeptical simply because they listed LoL. There's no way LoL is playable. My ping is 110 on average and it's hard to dodge skill shots as is, add any more latency to that and it will be a huge frustration to play even casually. 

[Jacknif]

Wow that's Neat

[shadowblitz3]

too bad my internet's crap 

[Puddleuk]

*cough* bullshit *cough*.

 

Latency is not something that can be vastly improved or extinguished simply due to the fact that the infrastructure of the internet (landlines, servers, etc) are not designed for it or is presently not capable of it. Unless they have a local server within a few miles radius of you then will always have lag, no software can fix it.

[BurgerBum]

*cough* bullshit *cough*.

 

Latency is not something that can be vastly improved or extinguished simply due to the fact that the infrastructure of the internet (landlines, servers, etc) are not designed for it or is presently not capable of it. Unless they have a local server within a few miles radius of you then will always have lag, no software can fix it.

when i lived in bullhead this was a massive issue,

yeah there was land lines and what not, but the sattelite internet there was still faster and no one had a ping lower than 170.

NO ONE.... :'c

[Tygron]

*cough* bullshit *cough*.

Latency is not something that can be vastly improved or extinguished simply due to the fact that the infrastructure of the internet (landlines, servers, etc) are not designed for it or is presently not capable of it. Unless they have a local server within a few miles radius of you then will always have lag, no software can fix it.

I dunno. I have a Shield and tried the Grid beta on the 2.4 band on my router (5Ghz was giving me problems of just not working at all for some reason) and since it was the start of the beta there was only one server and it was located in northern California. I live in southern Indiana. I had about 10mbps down and like... 1 up? Or something like that I can't remember. And I was playing games with no real noticeable latency. Like, much less lag than games running on my PC through about 25 feet of CAT6. Now my performance to my PC dramatically went up when I got the 5Ghz band working and both my PC and Grid felt pretty much like games were running on my Shield directly whereas before only Grid felt that way and my PC had about a full second delay between command input to reaction on screen. It was instant to the PC, I watched, but not to the Shield. Yes there is still a small delay, noticeable if you hole the Shield next to the monitor and moved through a menu or made something flash or etc, but it's a pretty acceptable account of lag imo. I've been able to play Titanfall and BLOPS2 with about a much success as I would if I were sitting in front of my PC with a controller.

I've been wanting to try the Shield using my phone as a hot spot to my PC or Grid to see the performance there or from another network to my PC but I can't get the off network streaming to work right, port forwarding never works for me even after following tutorials specific to my games or software and router.

I don't have any benchmarks or proof to show for any of this but, with the experience I've had with Shield I feel like there is a way to get this level of low latency. I'm not saying their engineers will get it there. Maybe they'll need Nvidia's help from the people behind the Grid service, or maybe that's why this service is going to run on though I don't see any mention of it.

Is it perfect latency? No. But very very playable. And I'm looking forward to hopefully getting into beta at some point and testing it on all of my devices.

[Thony]

I only game on pc with mouse and keyboard. I dont mind controllers but other devices are meh.. Also internet speeds and lateny are not quiet there yet.