Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

Post by gsich » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 6:21 AM UTC

pkaye wrote: post #511

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Huh, that's actually really interesting. I was going to say, "but even then you're still dealing with the speed of light", but I guess at the limit, it takes 4ms to reach 1,000 miles, which should be enough to get most anywhere in the U.S. to a Google data center. The latency dynamics here are a lot less implausible than I was suspecting at first, given peering at the local ISP level.

According to Wikipedia, input lag for video games is between 67-133ms. Adding an extra 10ms for network might be acceptable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_lag

Post by tbodt » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 6:53 AM UTC

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I participated in the beta and was pleasantly surprised to see how the entire experience came together. I only experienced one small technical issue. The game runs in real time on Google's servers. If you have some lag on your network, the client will drop all the frames during that time. Instead I expected behavior like Youtube where you will see a small loader and the game will continue before the lag started. This…

How do you picture your hypothetical vision of things working on the server side? Naively using buffering would make the input stream desync from the output stream. "Input prediction" works well enough when a game supports it, but lag would reappear for titles where the game doesn't. A general solution (for games with no input prediction) would require you to run the game in an x86 emulator with save-state + rewind s…

Post by mav3rick » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 7:26 AM UTC

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Yes you've played the service ? It surely sucks when no reviews are out ? Look for people who have dogfooded and raved about it.

Unless they've solve the speed of light issue then we don't need to wait for reviews. Even using a remote desktop on the other side of the city isn't a pleasant thing to be doing full time and that's not remotely as twitch based as gaming.

Post by flukus » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 8:11 AM UTC

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Unless they've solve the speed of light issue then we don't need to wait for reviews. Even using a remote desktop on the other side of the city isn't a pleasant thing to be doing full time and that's not remotely as twitch based as gaming.

People said the same about streaming video services.

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 8:22 AM UTC

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The only Chromebook I've seen anywhere is the nice one I bought my mum for Christmas year before last, she loves it and I've had no issues supporting it (like not a single one, she uses it constantly as well). I've got a school age stepson nothing there either.

Give it a couple years and they will be everywhere. I used to work for a company that sold a monitoring and filtering product for school computers. It's only been in the last two or three years that the ecosystem around them has really matured enough that they can compete with Windows machines and iPads on anything other than price. With the way schools' budgets work, we've really only just passed the early adopter s…