A cool “cloud” project is available for testing from the fine folks in the Autodesk Labs. If you located within 1000 miles of San Francisco and have a high speed connection you can now trial Autodesk products such as:
The reason for the proximity to San Francisco and high speed Internet is to make sure you get the best possible experience and performance as we are testing this technology..
Link to Project Twitch
- Test drive without installing or downloading Autodesk applications
- Scott Sheppard’s Blog Post on It’s Alive in the Lab Try AutoCAD, Inventor, and Revit without installing them
“Project Twitch!
This project is testing remote delivery of our applications over the Internet. The goal of project Twitch is to enable you to test and try the latest versions of AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, and Maya without having to install or download the applications. These applications run remotely on our servers and are delivered to you over the Internet. You will use them in the same way that you would if they were on installed on your system.”
Check out the System Requirements before trying Twitch
System Requirements
Internet Connectivity
- Within 1,000 miles of the data center located in San Francisco California USA
- 5Mbps or greater bandwidth
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows XP (32-bit)
- Windows Vista (32-bit)
Supported Browsers
- Firefox 3.x
- Internet Explorer 7 or higher
Hardware (for data compression/decompression)
- 1.6 GHz or higher dual-core CPU
- 1 GByte RAM
- Display resolution of 1280×1024 or higher
- DirectX 9c capable video card
Are you twitching to try it?
Cheers,
Shaan
Nice. I had used the pun of “twitchy” for “pretty” but you used “twitch” for “itch.” I like yours.
Aren’t there some guys in canada with a patent pending on this stuff? lol.
Someone trying to patent the cloud or remote software. LOL!