If there’s one thing you should know about the crew here at OnLive, it’s that we don’t like constraints. That’s the whole point of cloud gaming, right—get an awesomely sweet gaming experience wherever you are by tapping into our awesomely powerful servers. We’ve shown it on Mac and PC—anyone who has experienced the full-scale magic of Just Cause 2™ on a low-end laptop can vouch for that. And we’ve shown it on TV with the OnLive Game System, which just last week began delivering the hottest games instantly to the living room. But when you call up the OnLive Viewer on your iPad™ or Android™ tablet and see real, high-end video games being played in real time, you start to finally understand the magnitude of where cloud gaming can take us.
Today, it is my pleasure to announce the first-ever cloud gaming app for a mobile device: the OnLive Viewer, a free app that lets you become a spectator to millions of live game sessions as they are happening around the world. Available now on iPad and in beta for Android tablets, the OnLive Viewer gives you a window into the OnLive world while you are on the move. You can watch live gameplay and trailers of amazing new titles, flip between game sessions as if you were changing channels, cheer or jeer your friends, rate their Brag Clip™ videos and use other social features, all on your Wi-Fi or 3G network. And even though you can’t play games yet—no high-end games are programmed for touch-based tablets just yet—you’ll be seeing touch- and motion-aware high-end games in the future.
By harnessing the power of the cloud and delivering rich media experiences from our high-performance OnLive servers, we can turn even lightweight tablets into supercomputing powerhouses, anywhere, letting you break a few constraints of your own. In fact, our CEO Steve Perlman gave a technology demo where he used the OnLive Viewer to run other previously impossible applications on both an iPad and Android tablet at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference this morning, including high-speed browsing with full Adobe® Flash® compatibility, Autodesk® Maya® and the full version of Microsoft Windows® 7 Touch. High-end games won’t be long in coming, letting you get in the game—instantly—virtually anywhere.
Times are a-changing, almost faster than we can imagine. But imagine we will, and keep on building. In the meantime, you can get a taste of OnLive on-the-go with the free OnLive Viewer mobile app for iPad here. And keep cloud gaming at your fingertips, anywhere you go.
—Joe Bentley, VP of Engineering
