Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine (sorry for the flash site). This has sort of been flying under the radar, but deserves more attention. There is a demo available, with the full version available soon. Very well done for an "off-broadway" production, and the people that are making it deserve some support!
I don't think I've seen this anywhere... (and someone correct me if they have - you know you want to), but wouldn't the DS make a great keyboard/input unit for the built in Opera web browser......
Of course, DVD video will be available, which by most people's accounts here, is "good enough"...... look, like it or not, HDCP (especially married with HDMI) is now a staple of the HDTV world and isn't going anywhere. I'm just saying, having the option of watching HD movies (in whatever format) in a few years time vs. not having the option on a $2000 monitor (which, by most accounts and at that price point, should last at least a few years) seems to be a selling point to me. It seems silly that Apple isn't offering it, though as we all know, Apple really hasn't made any anouncemnts about HD video and Macs... though by most all accoutns they are going to have to....
I took a look at your site, and you're missing one of the biggest guns in my adware/spyware aresenol: HijackThis!
A little techie to use a first, but I find it a great last resort when spybot and adaware fail...
Yep, I was there, too. There are a ton of hidden menus/command/button combos that will trip you up without a goo doc. Try this. This is a great way to break into this otherwise rather obtuse piece of software....
I wonder.... and this is my point. Let's take Mr. Carmack at his word (he is, after all, smarter then me:) and say that all this power is possible within a few years. Not to take the artist out of the equation at all, but... what IS going to happen when a home machine has that much power? I really don't think we're quite grasping the first part of that statement... the power to do Toy Story (or better) graphics in real time. Imagine that. "I want the huey here, the tank there on the rolling hillside, these three missles will fire, and the explosion will go here! Roll it!" No, it will never be as good for the reasons stated (custimizability, modelling (the huey came from where, exactly?), etc), but for the 75% of people it will be close. That makes it much less of a marketable commodity, IMHO. But then, maybe I am comparing Louve pieces with a Starving Artist's sale... time will tell.
Like has been said.... special effects are going to get better... big whooping deal. There's going to be a limit, though (once you've reached real-life, what's next?) And we all read the Carmack keynote. What is interesting is this threshold we're quickly approaching where we can create these movie-studio quality graphics on a single workstation in real time, using hardware that's no different than what is found in a consumer lever machine. That's bad for the SFX studios; how can they charge outrageous amounts for something that every kid has in their basement? It reminds me of the start of 3D in games; it has the potential to be the birth of an entire new garage industry.
My first experience with a 3D web site was in 1995. First, downloading the Microsoft VRML plugin for what must have been IE ver 1.0, then waiting anxiously for Microsoft's 3D "Haunted House" to load....... and then getting the result. Did I mention that it was also the LAST experience I ever had with a 3D web?
Best of luck to you guys, but...
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Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine (sorry for the flash site). This has sort of been flying under the radar, but deserves more attention. There is a demo available, with the full version available soon. Very well done for an "off-broadway" production, and the people that are making it deserve some support!
I don't think I've seen this anywhere... (and someone correct me if they have - you know you want to), but wouldn't the DS make a great keyboard/input unit for the built in Opera web browser......
Of course, DVD video will be available, which by most people's accounts here, is "good enough"... ... look, like it or not, HDCP (especially married with HDMI) is now a staple of the HDTV world and isn't going anywhere. I'm just saying, having the option of watching HD movies (in whatever format) in a few years time vs. not having the option on a $2000 monitor (which, by most accounts and at that price point, should last at least a few years) seems to be a selling point to me. It seems silly that Apple isn't offering it, though as we all know, Apple really hasn't made any anouncemnts about HD video and Macs... though by most all accoutns they are going to have to....
Unless I'm missing something, Apple's 30" doesn't have HDCP, while Dell's does. If I'm going to drop this kind of cash on a monitor, I'm going to want it ready for Vista...
I took a look at your site, and you're missing one of the biggest guns in my adware/spyware aresenol: HijackThis! A little techie to use a first, but I find it a great last resort when spybot and adaware fail...
Yep, I was there, too. There are a ton of hidden menus/command/button combos that will trip you up without a goo doc. Try this. This is a great way to break into this otherwise rather obtuse piece of software....
I wonder.... and this is my point. Let's take Mr. Carmack at his word (he is, after all, smarter then me :) and say that all this power is possible within a few years. Not to take the artist out of the equation at all, but... what IS going to happen when a home machine has that much power? I really don't think we're quite grasping the first part of that statement... the power to do Toy Story (or better) graphics in real time. Imagine that. "I want the huey here, the tank there on the rolling hillside, these three missles will fire, and the explosion will go here! Roll it!" No, it will never be as good for the reasons stated (custimizability, modelling (the huey came from where, exactly?), etc), but for the 75% of people it will be close. That makes it much less of a marketable commodity, IMHO. But then, maybe I am comparing Louve pieces with a Starving Artist's sale... time will tell.
Ah, you didn't read the QuakeCon keynote, did you? :)
...Carmack went on to sum up his opinion of those naysayers who believe that film-quality movies will never be able to be rendered in realtime thusly: "They're really just wong."
Like has been said.... special effects are going to get better... big whooping deal. There's going to be a limit, though (once you've reached real-life, what's next?) And we all read the Carmack keynote. What is interesting is this threshold we're quickly approaching where we can create these movie-studio quality graphics on a single workstation in real time, using hardware that's no different than what is found in a consumer lever machine. That's bad for the SFX studios; how can they charge outrageous amounts for something that every kid has in their basement? It reminds me of the start of 3D in games; it has the potential to be the birth of an entire new garage industry.
My first experience with a 3D web site was in 1995. First, downloading the Microsoft VRML plugin for what must have been IE ver 1.0, then waiting anxiously for Microsoft's 3D "Haunted House" to load.... ... and then getting the result. Did I mention that it was also the LAST experience I ever had with a 3D web?
Best of luck to you guys, but...