Nvidia's RealityServer to Offer Ubiquitous 3D Images

WesternActor writes "ExtremeTech has an interview with a couple of the folks behind Nvidia's new RealityServer platform, which purports to make photorealistic 3D images available to anyone on any computing platform, even things like smartphones. The idea is that all the rendering happens 'in the cloud,' which allows for a much wider distribution of high-quality images. RealityServer isn't released until November 30, but it looks like it could be interesting. The article has photos and a video that show it in action."

Comments

It takes chutzpah to use the term "RealityServer"

[jeffb (2.718)]

...for demoware.

Re:It takes chutzpah to use the term "RealityServe

[DeadDecoy]

It could have been a CloudServer for vaporware.

What about Data Transfer

[Monkeedude1212]

Aren't Photo-Realistic Images pretty big in size? If I want to get 30 Frames per second, how am I ever going to push 30 Photorealistic Frames through the internet - I can hardly get 5 Mb/s from my ISP.

Re:What about Data Transfer

[im_thatoneguy]

Really you wouldn't describe Netflix HD as photorealistic? Even things... originally shot on film? With a camera?

Re:What about Data Transfer

[JobyOne]

How big is your screen?

That's the real question here. "Photorealistic" (a meaningless term in the context of transferring image data) on a smartphone screen is a whole lot smaller than on my full 1920x1280 desktop monitor.

"Photorealistic" will only ever be as high resolution as the screen you view it on.

Stop saying "cloud"

[HockeyPuck]

FTFA:

By moving ray tracing and many other high power graphics algorithms off the client and into the cloud, lightweight-computing platforms like netbooks and smartphones can display photorealistic images in real time.

Why not just say:

By moving ray tracing and many other high power graphics algorithms off the client and onto nvidia's servers, lightweight-computing platforms like netbooks and smartphones can display photorealistic images in real time.

I guess it's just not as cool...

I wonder if this would work for cooking?

By moving cutting, peeling, baking, frying and many other food preparation techniques off the dining room table and into the food cloud (kitchen), lightweight-eating platforms like TV trays and paper plates can be used to eat off of in real time.

Re:Stop saying "cloud"

[HBI]

For me, I just hate the marketing cocksuckers who come up with these terms. Some asshole saw too many Visio diagrams with a big cloud in the middle representing the intervening networks and decided that there are computers out there that will magically do what they want. Every time I hear the term 'cloud' I think 'botnet'. Because essentially, that's the only thing extant that resembles what they are proposing.

Re:Stop saying "cloud"

[Spad]

Shhhhh! You'll ruin the scam (of convincing uninformed people that an old idea is a new idea by renaming it).

Thin client -> fat client -> thin client -> fat client. *yawn*

Every time, this happens; things move away from the client for "performance" and "flexibility" and "scalability" reasons and then everyone realises it's a pain because of the lack of control or reliability and by that point the client hardware's moved on to the point where it can do the job better anyway so everyone moves back to it.

Re:Stop saying "cloud"

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Thin client -> fat client -> thin client -> fat client. *yawn*

We were forced to stop using the term "fat client' here at Big Bank; our end-users got offended when they heard the term, apparently they thought we were talking about the /users/ and not the systems... Instead, we must call it "thick client"* -- which is odd, since if they interpret it the same way it's just as insulting from another direction.

*go ahead, laugh, but it really happened!

Re:Stop saying "cloud"

[nurb432]

Don't worry, in 6 months we will have another buzz word we can hate and cloud will be history.

Re:Stop saying "cloud"

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm all about the "river computing" system. You dump whatever crap you want in, and its downstream's problem.