I scanned through quickly to make sure I am the first to say this..
DO YOU THINK THEY USED DBPRO TO MAKE THIS? :p
I smell the voice and humor in those vids of a west end londoner...
eitherway, he is claiming that nvidia (and that silly other COALITION BAND lol) arent really looking into point graphics...
NBody physics simulation anyone?
eitherway, I dont think its the graphics industry thats not ready for this amount of detail, its more the developers wanting to adapt it slowly and until there is a stable and flexible and tried and tested kit out there before they invest millions on it.
dont crufify me, its now 06:05am and I have not had my coffee...
I am writing this post up short for now... so not totally expressing my view here.
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but yeah, hope he sticks by it and not just package it and tadara it off to some not giving a **** company for x billion... and I look forward to more detailed work from them so will keep posted here on it
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not sure if this was mentioned before... but I do not think it will be easy to animate using this tech, so it seems it will be static, and how about colissions? is everything loaded as one object? >.<
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http://youtu.be/_NxCfYkPYBI
also british motorway csi have been using this tech for ages to record data at road accidents (itsept theirs takes forever, way to go gov budget lol)