Nvidia's RealityServer to Offer Ubiquitous 3D Images 82
WesternActor writes "ExtremeTech has an interview with a couple of the folks behind Nvidia's new RealityServer platform, which purports to make photorealistic 3D images available to anyone on any computing platform, even things like smartphones. The idea is that all the rendering happens 'in the cloud,' which allows for a much wider distribution of high-quality images. RealityServer isn't released until November 30, but it looks like it could be interesting. The article has photos and a video that show it in action."
Re:Stop saying "cloud" (Score:3, Informative)
We were forced to stop using the term "fat client' here at Big Bank; our end-users got offended when they heard the term, apparently they thought we were talking about the /users/ and not the systems... Instead, we must call it "thick client"* -- which is odd, since if they interpret it the same way it's just as insulting from another direction.
You forgot how we used to refer to IDE devices as either a "master" or a "slave"... this wasn't back in the 50s either.
Re:What about Data Transfer (Score:4, Informative)
How big is your screen?
That's the real question here. "Photorealistic" (a meaningless term in the context of transferring image data) on a smartphone screen is a whole lot smaller than on my full 1920x1280 desktop monitor.
"Photorealistic" will only ever be as high resolution as the screen you view it on.
Re:What about Data Transfer (Score:3, Informative)
Forget the data transfers, they'll increase, it's the latency that's the problem. Games using this technology will be almost useless, especially action games. Currently you get practically 0ms latency when you interact with a game, which is what makes it seem fast. If it's a multiplayer game then the only latency you get are from other people, and if they appear to go left 50ms later than when they pressed the button to go left it doesn't make a difference for you, since you don't know when they pressed the button. If you get 50ms latency on your own controls, then it's really really visible, since we have great motion vision... like T-Rexes.