Samsung Omnia Plays Crysis on Video
By Simon Sage on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 at 11:50 AM PST In Gaming, Samsung, Videos
You know how Opera and other browsers have their remote rendering setup to offload the heavy lifting from the handset? Well, what if that technique was used for something a little less mundane, like gaming? Then you’d get burgeoning startup OTOY, who have managed to make Crysis playable on on a Samsung Omnia with a connected XBox 360 controller. OTOY still works through the browser, and as such will likely work on any mobile – iPhone, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, so long as it has a Wi-Fi connection (or 3G, in a pinch). I’m curious what kind of pricing model these guys will go with, but it seems likely that they’ll do something along the lines of Gametap’s all-you-can-eat subscription model. It seems unlikely that their servers will be able to handle all the processing for the latest games, but a decent selection of PS2, original XBox and Wii games would be enough to get me to sign up. Would a set-up like this finally equalize the playing field between mobile gaming (phones) and portable gaming (PSP, Nintendo DS)?
[via TechCrunch]
Even if this is possible on an Omnia’s browser engine, how are they connecting the Xbox controller? Xbox 360’s controller users a proprietary RF frequency, not standard bluetooth like it’s PS3 and Wii counterparts.
If it’s just server side rendering, then the input device would still be controlled by the phone and I don’t know of any current software for the Samsung Omnia that would allow an Xbox 360 controller to be used as an input device.
Pains me to say it, but I call it faked.
i don’t think this tech is useful for playing games since it can’t work remotely unless they use some proprietary hardware to transmit the signals from the controller to back to home base which of course would create serious lag. besides they must be using a closed network and wifi ‘cos in real world situations there should definitely be at least 1s lag. besides going by this you are not going to be far from the 360 so why play on a phone screen.
but i guess this is more a tech demo to show the rendering capability of the software which should enable new options for streaming video from home without a slingbox, in other words server based streaming instead of hardware now that would be awesome.
ok this is just unreasonable…is there a 1 comment limit on this website or is there a reason all my comments are being deleted…
my bad false alarm…