Remote Desktop App Similar to OnLive's Performance

I'm sure many of you are familiar with OnLive by now: games are streamed from hundreds of miles away at 30 frames per second at 720p resolution to you with a negligible lag and in-sync audio. Locally over the same wi-fi connection, a technology like this on the iPad at 1024x768 could feel very much as if you're running Mac OS or Windows on your iPad whereas typical VNC/remote desktop apps run at a very, very low framerate with noticeable lag and no audio.

Have any remote desktop apps been able to match OnLive's performance? Running locaclly over wi-fi or a few miles away should yield even better results than OnLive. It's been proven that remote desktop apps could be a thousand times better. Has any app even come close? It'll be a breakthrough when an app does. Then you'll be able to practically do anything you can on a computer, including playing games.

What's the best RDP app you can name? I'm going to use my still-being-learned Objective-C experience and test different codecs and try to at least reach 15 frames per second and 250 ms lag. Wish me luck . Seriously, though, as my Objective-C skill gets better, I will try my best to reach much better frame rates than any VNC app I've seen or tried.

With the right app, 1024x768 at a high quality can make it feel like you're running Windows or Mac OS on the iPad. Lag and extremely slow framerates constantly remind you that you're not, though. I don't think LogMeIn Ignition's performance looks much better than apps I've tried, though.

I've been testing some video codecs for a remote desktop app I'm planning to make in the next year. I won't settle less than the performance OnLive has managed to achieve and maybe a better quality considering it's your own computer so that usually means a little more bandwidth, especially if you use your own Wi-Fi connection. For sure it will require a powerful computer, though the MacBook Pro in my signature is my goal to be the recommended hardware for it. So, then any recent Mac should have no problem with the software. It'll take quite a while, but I'll attempt it.