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    MacRumors:


    First posted over at TouchArcade.com, a YouTube video depicts what could be World of Warcraft running on the iPhone.



    World of Warcraft is an incredibly popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with over 11 million subscribers.

    While there have been sketchy rumors in the past that this game could find its way to the iPhone, the video seems believable as it shows the game running within the Vollee client application. Vollee is a company that develops software to allow mobile 3G phones to play CPU intensive PC applications over the network. Their first demonstration in 2008 showed Second Life on a mobile device. The software works by essentially streaming video of the game rather than rendering it by the handset itself:

    The company’s VolleeX engine adapts applications for screen size and key layout, and then streams the original application to mobile devices. Vollee’s interactive video streaming platform optimizes compression to minimize bandwidth requirements and also leverages the 3G mobile networks in such a way that gamers can easily and smoothly navigate virtual worlds. Vollee’s technology is also extensible to fast paced, high quality video games previously impossible on mobile.
    Vollee has also previously announced upcoming iPhone support as well as a partnership with ActivisionBlizzard which would make this client a distinct possibility. The company, however, has been rather quiet lately and their website is currently not resolving.

    Uh, wow.

    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=691948

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    Wow..just WoW

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    that's...just...how?

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    How can a phone support WoW?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mime Taxidermy View Post
    How can a phone support WoW?
    Says it in the original post, read the quote.

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    how about iTouch ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cinderboy View Post
    how about iTouch ?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Mime Taxidermy View Post
    How can a phone support WoW?
    You do realize that WoW can be ran fine on a machine made in 1998, correct? The iPhone should be able to handle it like a champ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by replicant View Post
    You do realize that WoW can be ran fine on a machine made in 1998, correct? The iPhone should be able to handle it like a champ.
    Might even be able to run it in on a DS....
    But the horror of that would make me smash my DSlite into bits. >_<

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mime Taxidermy View Post
    How can a phone support WoW?
    Because WoW can be run on anything, shit graphics lol.......


    Na, it's a streaming technology read the quote dude.

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