Dave Perry shows off Gaikai

First footage of service running in normal browser offered Veteran gaming man Dave Perry has shown off his OnLive-rivalling cloud gaming service Gaikai in a new video that is drawing a lot of attention. As you can see, Perry shows off World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Mario Kart 64, Spore and more - all running on a bog-standard computer through the Gaikai website, itself running in a normal version of Firefox. All the gaming you see is being played directly from a remote computer, and as you can see, despite nothing being stored locally, the games play rather smoothly. One thing worth noting is that the game window is rather smaller than the browser - a lower resolution stream potentially reducing bandwidth needs. Rival cloud service OnLive, meanwhile, claims to be capable of streaming full high-definition video - although the feasibility of this has been questioned. Perry says that Gaikai usually works with anything more than a 1Mb internet connection, and the service certainly seems to be in ... (link)