The basic technology behind this is a proprietary low-latency compression scheme that allows the images to be computed on a remote server, then transferred fairly quickly to a “controller device” (here, the iPhone). The catch is that you need to be somewhat close to the datacenter because the latency would otherwise be greater, making the gameplay difficult. In a way, this is really an infrastructure problem. Let’s hope that they all get it right.
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