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Nvidia's RealityServer to Offer Ubiquitous 3D Images

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the more-rain-from-the-cloud dept.

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."

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  1. Re:It takes chutzpah to use the term "RealityServe by DeadDecoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could have been a CloudServer for vaporware.

  2. What about Data Transfer by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Stop saying "cloud" by HockeyPuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Stop saying "cloud" by HBI · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

      --
      HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
    2. Re:Stop saying "cloud" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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