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ECTS: T-Buffer from 3dfx on show
News The company claims T-Buffer will "bridge the realism gap" that currently exists between film/photography and computer graphics. Gary Tarolli, 3dfx chief technical officer said that leap in realism was necessary in order to appease a consumer...
[September 6, 1999, 11:28]
ATI: Radeon 9700 is double the power of GeForce4
News The chip includes features designed to increase raw performance and realism, and to give programmers more control over the way graphics are rendered. For increased realism, Radeon 9700 uses a technology called Smartshader 2.0, which supports up to...
[July 18, 2002, 13:54]
Telewest nose best with smelly email
News This could bring an extra whiff of realism to the Internet," explained Chad Raube, director of Internet services at Telewest Broadband. Reading an email could soon be a more sensory experience, thanks to a device created by Telewest.
[February 19, 2004, 17:24]
Fiorina explains how to change
News According to Fiorina, a successful transformation will also require a balance of optimism and realism: "Optimism fundamentally is the belief that things can be better and people are capable of achieving more.
[February 22, 2006, 16:20]
News Schmooze: Thumbs up to 3G auctions, says NAO
News The National Audit Office might be delving into the realms of fantasy with its report on the 3G spectrum auctions, but in other respects it has reached an entirely new, and not entirely welcome, high-water mark for realism -- just look at the...
[October 19, 2001, 17:34]
New chip may signal ATI comeback
News The Markham, Ontario-based company on Thursday will unveil the details of the Radeon 9700, a desktop graphics chip based on a new architecture that will provide greater realism when it comes to 3D images, according to sources.
[July 17, 2002, 11:32]
Nvidia programming tool goes open source
News For game developers and other graphics professionals, that means being able to achieve greater realism through programming high-level visual effects such as pixel shading. Graphics chip maker Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it will make some of...
[July 24, 2002, 10:05]
IBM pulls plug on PowerPC NT systems
News It is a sign of Big Blue's new realism that it can recognise a lost cause and, with little third-party support and even OS/2 now destined not to appear on the silicon, that is surely what the PowerPC is.
[December 16, 1996, 10:58]
nVidia claims world first for its Graphics Processing Unit
News Richard Huddy, development relations manager nVidia Europe, said that "load of memory and terrific 3D" would offer gamers a "move to realism. nVidia has released what it claims is the world's first graphics processing unit (GPU), the GeForce 256...
[September 1, 1999, 14:51]
Graphics technology shows shape of the universe
News Although computer graphics have already attained a high degree of realism, they remain one of the hotbeds of research. The Earth isn't flat, but it looks as if the universe is. Astronomical data, computer graphics and the emerging field of...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
Radeon 9800 Pro speeds past GeForce FX
News However, when features such as anti-aliasing (AA) and anisotropic filtering (AF) -- two high-end features for adding realism to 3D environments -- were turned on, the Radeon card was "the unanimous winner", according to the tests.
[March 11, 2003, 15:30]
Nvidia goes for mobile 3D
News Nvidia also claims the AR10 is the first 3D acceleration processor for mobiles that supports shaders, pixel-by-pixel graphics programming that can dramatically increase the realism of animated images.
[February 25, 2004, 16:25]
GeForce3 means good times for PC and Xbox gamers
News Nvidia demonstrated that the GeForce3 is capable of creating extremely detailed surfaces to a high degree of realism, thanks to its nFiniteFX engine. PC and console gamers were promised more impressive graphics than ever before, such as realistic...
[February 28, 2001, 15:05]
Game developers look beyond polygons
News The next 10 times leap in performance will still not get us to realism. Computer games are approaching the end of the line when it comes to graphical detail, according to developers, and the only place left to go is character development.
[August 29, 2002, 8:52]
US Army using games to recruit soldiers
News Operations" also emphasises realism, said Michael Capps, the game's designer and producer. Look sharp, game industry -- you're in the Army now. The US Army announced on Wednesday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show that it is developing...
[May 23, 2002, 14:45]
Nvidia, ATI rev graphics engines
News The chips will also have dramatically enhanced support for shader instructions, pixel-by-pixel graphics programming that can dramatically increase the realism of animated images. ATI Technologies is set to leap ahead of market leader Nvidia in the...
[March 6, 2003, 7:29]
Hitachi stresses chemistry on perpendicular drives
News First there was "Get Perpendicular", which combined elements of "Soul Train" and Abba's "Dancing Queen"; then came the urban realism of "The Hard Drive is the New Bling". Hitachi Global Storage Technologies isn't the first company to come out with...
[May 15, 2006, 9:05]
Hoax e-mail hits AOL
News Atkins noted that the message's tale about corporate greed and invasion of privacy draws on actual recent events to add to its sense of realism. The new version of America Online's software isn't just clunky and slow, it'll also allow a secret...
[October 8, 1997, 11:06]
New GeForce arrives next month
News Nvidia may be planning to add a second vertex processing unit, a device which boosts the realism of 3D objects; the Xbox GPU already has two such units. Nvidia's next-generation graphics chip for PCs, code-named NV-25, will arrive in about a month...
[January 4, 2002, 14:20]
Nvidia NV30 pursues raw speed
News The upcoming chip is expected to set a new milestone in programmability -- the capacity of a chip to run programs that can bring the realism of real-time-rendered 3D graphics closer to that found in movie special effects.
[October 8, 2002, 16:40]
