David Perry's Gaikai service is very ambitious. It's an exercise in "cloud gaming" that runs games on distant servers, sending the live video feed of the game to a web browser. It places the burden of computing power on Galkai and only asks the user to have enough bandwidth to handle the streaming video. Keyboard and mouse inputs are sent to the server, take effect, and the changes are sent back.

The service was privately demoed at E3 2009, but was not shown to the public.

But will it work? If this new video from David Perry is to be believed... it just might:

Gaikai Technology Demo (JULY 1, 2009) from David Perry on Vimeo.

In the video, you can see David running Spore, EVE Online, World of WarCraft, and even Mario Kart 64 (running on an emulator) in his browser. He claims that it only requires around 1Mbit/s of bandwidth. Do you believe this or do you think David is using some smoke and mirrors?

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