Gaming revolution?
Hmmm... This could be one of two things: a total revolution in the gaming industry. Or the gaming version of the Wizard Of Oz. Gaikai is a gaming streaming service which its creator (gaming industry legend Dave Perry) reckons can play any game, ever, just in an ordinary internet browser window.
All the clever tech lives in "the cloud": the virtual online space of super servers and internet streaming. All Perry reckons you need to do is fire up a standard browser on a standard internet line, connect to his site, and then play any game you like, as the developer intended, with glorious graphics, and no lag. For a fee, obviously. He's not that nice...
Now a competing company recently revealed On Live, a similar games streaming product, and its tech was immediately debunked and comprehensively pooh-poohed by a raft of gaming technology experts, so we're keeping our powder dry here, and not making any assumptions. But the opportunity to fire up World Of Warcraft, Eve Online, Need For Speed, Mario Kart etc etc online, immediately is lip-smackingly exciting. So you watch the video, and you decide, eh.
