Eureka 3D

[samsc]

This is how i see it as well. All the new mediaservers (martin, VL) focuses on 3D effects, virtual lighting and other strange things that i would think will not be used that much in real life.
EX1-hardware looks great though..

Hardware would look great with horns on it.
Kindof like using a sledgehammer instead of a nutcracker.

I mean the problem is no harder than a playstation....
And these guys need 350lbs of gear?

You can do this on a playstation/xbox.

What do they think the games industry is built on?

Its doing much better stuff than all these dodgy 'media servers' including catalyst.

The guys doing games are the geniuses.

This stuff is shite in comparison.

[Spam Butterfly]

Hardware would look great with horns on it.
Kindof like using a sledgehammer instead of a nutcracker.

I mean the problem is no harder than a playstation....
And these guys need 350lbs of gear?

You can do this on a playstation/xbox.

What do they think the games industry is built on?

Its doing much better stuff than all these dodgy 'media servers' including catalyst.

The guys doing games are the geniuses.

This stuff is shite in comparison.

The playstation and X-Box are great examples of custom PC boards which use whizzy Open GL. However, these systems are designed with a certain amount of longevity - unlike the PC boards you buy off the shelf. Don't forget - these systems compete with current PC's - not bad when you consider that an X-Box is essentially a 733Mhz Celeron with a bit of extra cache and an custom Geforce 3 video chipset. The difference is that developers will code to use every ounce of power out of these things, in much the same way as developers used to in the Atari/ Amiga days (I was always an Amiga man - Atari's are for small girls.). Don't forget the Amiga, with it's custom graphics chipset, was the heart of the Video Toaster...

Hugh