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Posted by kr00t0n on Aug-16-2008 10:14:

LivePlace

Holy crap!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/1...d-in-the-cloud/

Sure, it might be a glorified Second Life, but the graphics are incredible!!

Posted by blacknoizybox on Aug-16-2008 10:44:

are there bots for screwing?

Posted by Acton on Aug-16-2008 11:36:

it's the end of socialising as we know it!

Still pretty cool though.

Posted by whiskers on Aug-16-2008 13:39:

uhhhh.. why the hell would you play "reality" in your computer?

how long till people go GTA on it? snowcrash, anyone?

Posted by kadomony on Aug-16-2008 14:55:

Posted by kadomony on Aug-16-2008 15:15:

hahah omg there's computers in the game thst can access the internet

YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE THE INTERNET SO WE PUT A COMPUTER IN YOUR COMPUTER SO YOU CAN SURF WHILE YOU SURF

Posted by whiskers on Aug-16-2008 15:38:

quote:
Originally posted by kadomony
hahah omg there's computers in the game thst can access the internet

YO DAWG I HERD YOU LIKE THE INTERNET SO WE PUT A COMPUTER IN YOUR COMPUTER SO YOU CAN SURF WHILE YOU SURF

so can you sign on to the game, get on the computer in the game, and sign on to the game again??

Posted by Fledz on Aug-16-2008 15:41:

No fucking way. Those graphics are incredible

Posted by Audious on Aug-16-2008 17:15:

How long before raids are run on a daycare?

Posted by kr00t0n on Aug-16-2008 18:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Audious
How long before raids are run on a daycare?

Gotta grind for those epics!

Posted by whiskers on Aug-16-2008 18:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Audious
How long before raids are run on a daycare?

pool's closed. 4chan is taking over.

Posted by r5a on Aug-16-2008 20:39:

That video was running off a cell phone?

This technology seems absolutely amazing. Anyone know anything else about this?

edit:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

Wow. This is a fucking gigantic leap forward into graphics and stuff and will effect the whole industry drastically.

Posted by jupiterone on Aug-16-2008 21:27:

really, really incredible

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-16-2008 22:04:

Looks very nice, but...

I don't see how an MMORPG using this server-centered graphics processing would be feasible at all considering current net connection speeds.

Posted by kr00t0n on Aug-16-2008 22:32:

quote:
Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Looks very nice, but...

I don't see how an MMORPG using this server-centered graphics processing would be feasible at all considering current net connection speeds.

There is some shit-hot compression algorithms out there for pre-rendered graphics

Example:

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=...is.zip&fileinfo

Download and run that.

Compressed to under 200kb!!!!

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Aug-16-2008 22:40:

quote:
Originally posted by kr00t0n
There is some shit-hot compression algorithms out there for pre-rendered graphics

Example:

http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=...is.zip&fileinfo

Download and run that.

Piece of crap nearly froze my computer.

Think it needs a bit of work.