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 Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 11:52 Post subject: City Space |
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 11:57 Post subject: |
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oh, i forgot, the official site here: http://www.liveplace.com/ - you'll play the game from browser.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:01 Post subject: |
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I'm definitely interested in this cloud-rendering technology, especially if it can create real-time rendering engines with minimal power. IF this is true/real (which I have strong doubts) then it could revolutionize videogaming.
.... I bet ATi/AMD and nVidia strenuously oppose it! *chuckles* There's not exactly much market for GeForce Uber GTX+ Ultra SLi or Radeon XTXTXTX cards if this comes to pass, is there?
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Surray
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After I saw that stuff about the first 10 or 15 seconds of the video beeing from some pre-rendered video of some artist, I've become quite skeptical about this.
I'll believe it when I see it running on my PC.
Likot Mosuskekim, Woodcutter cancels Sleep: Interrupted by Elephant.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:13 Post subject: |
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| Surray wrote: |
I'll believe it when I see it running on my PC. |
Precisely.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:21 Post subject: |
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the graphics are great but still within reason of today's equipment from what I've seen
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:50 Post subject: |
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Honestly, this is a pretty stupid idea, at least for games.
I mean, what, I guess it'd be required for the player to pay out some sort of subscription fee, or a per-hour fee, to get a render farm dedicated to their instance of a game? Because no one is going to be kind enough to let some gamer tie up a five-or-six-figure render farm, for free. A fee would be pretty lame, especially for singleplayer games, but again, no one would be that charitable. And what happens when all the farms are in use by different players? I guess you'd have to wait in line, huh?
| sabin1981 wrote: | | I'm definitely interested in this cloud-rendering technology, especially if it can create real-time rendering engines with minimal power. IF this is true/real (which I have strong doubts) then it could revolutionize videogaming. |
It's not rendering with "minimal power." It's rendering with absolutely massive amounts of power, spread across numerious gigantic render farms (aka, the kind of computers they use to render Pixar movies and the like).
Are you sure you understand the concept here? Basically, the idea is that the user plays a game (or in this case, a virtual city tour), or rather, does all the input for the game on their home computer, and the inputs are sent to a massively powerful (and expensive) cloud of render farms, which calculate the graphics, and then send the rendered, real-time images back to the user's PC as a video stream.
| Quote: | | .... I bet ATi/AMD and nVidia strenuously oppose it! *chuckles* There's not exactly much market for GeForce Uber GTX+ Ultra SLi or Radeon XTXTXTX cards if this comes to pass, is there? |
But these render farms often utilize AMD and nVidia equipment. Tens of thousands of dollars worth, even. So, yeah.
But anyways! It's already been shown that the video includes pre-rendered CGI demos that were created by an artist who has nothing to do with this company, or their technology. They passed off this CGI demo reel they found on the internet, as part of their tech demo. And that's just wrong.
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:53 Post subject: |
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| Cedge wrote: |
Are you sure you understand the concept here? Basically, the idea is that the user plays a game (or in this case, a virtual city tour), or rather, does all the input for the game on their home computer, and the inputs are sent to a massively powerful (and expensive) cloud of render farms, which calculate the graphics, and then send the rendered, real-time images back to the user's PC as a video stream. |
Ah! Thanks for the clarification, I obviously *didn't* understand the concept. I misread it to mean this sort of graphical quality could be had on low-end hardware .. I didn't think about server-side systems being used to power it.
*slinks off sheepishly*
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Aug 2008 12:57 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: |
.... I bet ATi/AMD and nVidia strenuously oppose it! *chuckles* There's not exactly much market for GeForce Uber GTX+ Ultra SLi or Radeon XTXTXTX cards if this comes to pass, is there? |
no, at least AMD/ATi don't. If you read more about it, it is actually rendered on ATi-GPUs and developed closely in collaboration with AMD (hint Cinema 2.0)
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