'World of Warcraft' Demoed on the iPhone?
First posted over at TouchArcade.com, a YouTube video depicts what could be World of Warcraft running on the iPhone.
World of Warcraft is an incredibly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with over 11 million subscribers.
While there have been sketchy rumors in the past that this game could find its way to the iPhone, the video seems believable as it shows the game running within the Vollee client application. Vollee is a company that develops software to allow mobile 3G phones to play CPU intensive PC applications over the network. Their first demonstration in 2008 showed Second Life on a mobile device. The software works by essentially streaming video of the game rather than rendering it by the handset itself:
World of Warcraft is an incredibly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with over 11 million subscribers.
While there have been sketchy rumors in the past that this game could find its way to the iPhone, the video seems believable as it shows the game running within the Vollee client application. Vollee is a company that develops software to allow mobile 3G phones to play CPU intensive PC applications over the network. Their first demonstration in 2008 showed Second Life on a mobile device. The software works by essentially streaming video of the game rather than rendering it by the handset itself:
The companys VolleeX engine adapts applications for screen size and key layout, and then streams the original application to mobile devices. Vollees interactive video streaming platform optimizes compression to minimize bandwidth requirements and also leverages the 3G mobile networks in such a way that gamers can easily and smoothly navigate virtual worlds. Vollees technology is also extensible to fast paced, high quality video games previously impossible on mobile.
Vollee has also previously announced upcoming iPhone support as well as a partnership with ActivisionBlizzard which would make this client a distinct possibility. The company, however, has been rather quiet lately and their website is currently not resolving.Top Rated Comments
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37 months ago
That's only running over ATT's current 3G network, when the final app is released, it'll probably run really smoothly over ATT's updated 3G network and wifi. There's really no way that this isn't in development, and it looks like the real beta app. Wow, you really lose the intuitiveness of multitouch controls when there's any lag at all between your computer, Vollee's server, and the phone. Unfortunately, there'll always be minimal lag in an app like this, and it's more noticeable on the iPhone than a phone that uses regular buttons. It looks like it'll be a good way to play WoW anywhere. I'd make the action icons smaller so there's room for more spells, and it should let you highlight them to show all the information about the icons.
It looks past the proof of concept stage and it'll probably have a public beta in two or three months. Vollee still has some work to do polishing the application and making the game look as good and run as smoothly as possible over a service like this. This is definitely something that could catch on, especially since Vollee is planning to make a lot of games playable on the service. I'd assume that this will have an additional monthly fee to use because Vollee's servers compress the video. I think this service will do better at a $10-$20 one-time price for a big game like this and $5-$10 for less popular games.
That was a lucky find (I found it), I made the views of that video go from 300 to 20,000 in less than a day ;).
It looks past the proof of concept stage and it'll probably have a public beta in two or three months. Vollee still has some work to do polishing the application and making the game look as good and run as smoothly as possible over a service like this. This is definitely something that could catch on, especially since Vollee is planning to make a lot of games playable on the service. I'd assume that this will have an additional monthly fee to use because Vollee's servers compress the video. I think this service will do better at a $10-$20 one-time price for a big game like this and $5-$10 for less popular games.
That was a lucky find (I found it), I made the views of that video go from 300 to 20,000 in less than a day ;).
37 months ago
I would expect blizzard to rather team up with OnLive..
But a dedicated Auction House application would be awesome..
But a dedicated Auction House application would be awesome..
37 months ago
This service may end up charging a monthly fee as otherwise they would have to run their servers for free. Which is not feasible.
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