Via the OnLive Blog, they’ve just announced that they’ve pushed the service into beta and are letting real people log in and try out games. The purpose: gathering data on network latencies, speeds, and general bugfixes.
One of the key challenges that OnLive technology addresses is providing a high-quality, fast-response gaming experience over a wide range of situations: different speeds/locations/types of broadband services, a variety of different PC and Mac configurations, several kinds of input and display devices, etc. So, a major focus of OnLive Beta is to test as many of these different situations as we can
If you don’t recall what OnLive is, you can read our previous coverage of their impressive web-based remote-gaming technology via our OnLive tag.
According to our members, no one has yet got the onlive beta invite.