Otoy’s ORBX and Amazon’s EC2 GPU deliver CG applications and games to the browser
Nov 06, 2013 by CGP Staff
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Your life in a browser. Otoy, Amazon, NVidia, Mozilla and Autodesk announced that Otoy and Mozilla’s efforts to use the ORBX.js JavaScript library for streaming applications to browsers have received a major boost. The technology has been incorporated into the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud G2 instance type, allowing to deploy high-performance NVidia GRID GPU graphics on-demand to any HTML5-compliant browser. A sample video shows 3DS Max running on Firefox with Octane rendering in the cloud.
According to Otoy’s press release, this would provide a complete Windows or Linux desktop or workstation replacement in the cloud, capable of installing and running software or services designed for traditional PCs. Watch some sample videos: streaming Octane Render for 3DS Max, streaming Adobe Creative Cloud, Octane Cloud running in Firefox using ORBX.js.
Read the following press releases and blog posts for more: Mozilla, NVidia, Autodesk, Otoy, Amazon.
According to Otoy’s press release, this would provide a complete Windows or Linux desktop or workstation replacement in the cloud, capable of installing and running software or services designed for traditional PCs. Watch some sample videos: streaming Octane Render for 3DS Max, streaming Adobe Creative Cloud, Octane Cloud running in Firefox using ORBX.js.
Read the following press releases and blog posts for more: Mozilla, NVidia, Autodesk, Otoy, Amazon.
This is… quite nice. I’m still hesitant to like the idea of a cloud/stream based workstation but I got to say this might make life a lot easier. Impressed so far…
There is still a licensing issue. If Autodesk specifies that a standard licence may not be used on EC2, then we’d be forced to use an alternate (and alternately priced) license. Autodesk has publicly said they are moving toward this.
There are so many open questions, absolutely. Plugin availability and licensing, privacy, security, costs, all of these may limit its usability in the end, no doubt.