12 Facts About OnLive

OnLive was a Mountain View, California-based provider of cloud virtualization technologies.

OnLive expanded into the cloud desktop market with a sister product, OnLive Desktop—a subscription service offering a cloud-based instance of Windows Server 2008 R2 accessible via tablets.

OnLive Desktop used desktop virtualization technology to create a remotely hosted Windows Server 2008 desktop environment.

OnLive planned to make its service available in the rest of Europe as well.

OnLive was announced at the Game Developers Conference in 2009.

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OnLive Desktop used virtualization technology to create a remotely hosted Windows 7 desktop.

OnLive entered into a proceeding known as an "Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors", wherein OnLive shareholders lost their stakes in the company.

OnLive then sold off its assets and started a new company, called OnLive.

Near E3 in 2009, which is approximately 350 miles away from their data center, OnLive demonstrated their service performed well with a consumer cable modem and Internet connection.

OnLive stated he believed OnLive customers would need a broadband line with "guaranteed, non-shared, uninterruptible speed", but "broadband isn't there yet, nor are ISPs willing to offer performance guarantees".

Eurogamer's Digital Foundry was amongst the most harshly skeptical in an article published upon OnLive's unveiling and public demonstration entitled, "GDC: Why OnLive Can't Possibly Work" by Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter.

In examining latency, Eurogamer's Digital Foundry initial test found that in some of their test scenarios, users of OnLive could expect 150ms of latency over a consumer Internet connection; however, they noted inconsistencies, in that some games had higher latency, and that this would depend on the quality of the customer's internet connection.