Although it's less of a name, many commercial theaters use Christie Digital projectors and speakers. Their commercial division now sells a super high end home theater setup just like IMAX is doing. Probably similar quality for less markup. Still not cheap by any means.
A while ago on Slashdot, a story was posted with Steven Hawking saying that the Human Race is in danger of being enslaved by AI. Slashdot store here Isaac Asimov spent a lot of time thinking about sentient-like robots too, such as in the great book "Bicentennial Man" (despite the lackluster movie). But, if you watch films about the future from the 40's and 50's, very few of the innovations predicted to take over in the new century have actually occurred (I don't know about you, but I don't have a rocket-pack). I suspect that our actual downfall in the distant future will be something that we couldn't even start to predict now.
Although it is important to see how a Video Card can perform with current-day games, I think the beauty of NV30 is it's potential for near photo-real renders with future software. Has anybody seen Nvidia's demo they showed at that Australian developer's conference? The real-time Fairy model was amazing; it was a extremely high polygon model with convincing animation and excellent lighting with several lights. The quality of her face was on par with the Final Fantasy movie (the Spirits Within). The sooner people start buying a card with these capabilities, the sooner game developers will start utilizing the features and horsepower.
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You could really boost the malicious success rate by calling this a "Steampunk USB Memory Key". It does actually look pretty cool aesthetically.
Although it's less of a name, many commercial theaters use Christie Digital projectors and speakers. Their commercial division now sells a super high end home theater setup just like IMAX is doing. Probably similar quality for less markup. Still not cheap by any means.
A while ago on Slashdot, a story was posted with Steven Hawking saying that the Human Race is in danger of being enslaved by AI. Slashdot store here Isaac Asimov spent a lot of time thinking about sentient-like robots too, such as in the great book "Bicentennial Man" (despite the lackluster movie). But, if you watch films about the future from the 40's and 50's, very few of the innovations predicted to take over in the new century have actually occurred (I don't know about you, but I don't have a rocket-pack). I suspect that our actual downfall in the distant future will be something that we couldn't even start to predict now.
Although it is important to see how a Video Card can perform with current-day games, I think the beauty of NV30 is it's potential for near photo-real renders with future software. Has anybody seen Nvidia's demo they showed at that Australian developer's conference? The real-time Fairy model was amazing; it was a extremely high polygon model with convincing animation and excellent lighting with several lights. The quality of her face was on par with the Final Fantasy movie (the Spirits Within). The sooner people start buying a card with these capabilities, the sooner game developers will start utilizing the features and horsepower.