Introduction to the Special Section on Visual Computing in the Cloud: Cloud Gaming and Virtualization.

Cloud gaming, the newest entry in the online gaming world, leverages the well-known concept of cloud computing to provide real-time gaming services to players. The idea in cloud gaming is to capture the game events from players and transmit them to the cloud, process those events and run the game logic in the cloud, render the game scene as video in the cloud, and stream that video to the players....