The future of video games, that is. Once it gets going, at decent connection latencies, this will eliminate game piracy, the need to upgrade your machine every 2 years, the need to physically own a game to be able to play it and so on.

Also, adds to Google's Chrome OS concept, making stuff happen in the browser.

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^Latency will be a crippling issue for most people for a while yet, I think. Maybe forever for some. Can't get around the old speed of light.

Some games will never be playable this way, but I could see certain single player games working with this. Anything where you require precision is right out.

It's not "all using HTML" as he states; it's using Javascript. I would not be too surprised to find older computers that still can't keep up.

Up vote for GTA4, down vote for cloud computing. This is such a fail product for gamers.

>> ^dag:
^Latency will be a crippling issue for most people for a while yet, I think. Maybe forever for some. Can't get around the old speed of light.

The guy in the video already said that latency isn't such a big problem. OnLive is another such service that is almost ready. Here is a video demonstration which also has low lag.
Maybe for high skill FPS the latency would be noticeable. But at a certain point you would have to choose between photo realistic games with a latency of 25-50ms (if it works out well) or worse looking games on your own computer.