7 Gamers, 1 CPU

[Fat Tire]

[Hor]

Beat me to it, I been watching this one on Twitter.

[MiRai]

Multi-person multiboxing from the same machine.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Not a bad idea for, say, LAN parties or an gaming cafe.

[Lyonheart]

Not a bad idea for, say, LAN parties or an gaming cafe.

Exactly what i was thinking. There is a company about to open internet VR cafes in the near future.. would be great for that i think!

[mbox_bob]

Most internet café machines don't work out to $4.2K per player, it gets beyond the price point where it is viable.

At $5 per hour, per user, it would need to be in use 8 hours a day for 108 days to recover the build cost, let alone the running and management. As a general rule, recovery of machine costs needs to occur within 50 days at 6 hours per day, or preferably 4 hours per day if you can get away with it.

On the other hand, if it was a full VR setup, it would be quite cool, and probably able to charge higher rates, and if you had nothing better to spend your money on, the bragging rights for your video wall would be cool. It might even be able to drive on of those new 8K 98" TV's....

[Lyonheart]

Most internet café machines don't work out to $4.2K per player, it gets beyond the price point where it is viable.

At $5 per hour, per user, it would need to be in use 8 hours a day for 108 days to recover the build cost, let alone the running and management. As a general rule, recovery of machine costs needs to occur within 50 days at 6 hours per day, or preferably 4 hours per day if you can get away with it.

On the other hand, if it was a full VR setup, it would be quite cool, and probably able to charge higher rates, and if you had nothing better to spend your money on, the bragging rights for your video wall would be cool. It might even be able to drive on of those new 8K 98" TV's....

These will be full VR..i could not find the article that was talking about Cafes here in America.. but this is one example of where its heading in China>> HTC VR .. also that site is a great resource for anything VR. Also "Cafe" might be the wrong term.. these will be more like VR arcades/amusement parks like>>VR Amusement park

So back OT..Unless you live with some wealthy roommates who all want to chip in.. i don't see any other practical application for a PC that multiple people can play on..other than the cafe scenario.

[moosejaw]

This is a great build. He does good work.

Now for Linus to plug in all 7 headsets and get the game chat working.

Oh yeah, now when the machine blue screens, 7 people get mad instead of just one.

[Hor]

I think on a smaller scale this could be quite useful, for someone looking to do 10-25 boxing for example I could see a trimmed down version of this being pretty stellar.

[Selzmultibox]

Check this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opX-AsJ5Uy8

It makes me wonder

Merged with existing thread.
-MiRai