[Gllug] OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Harry Rickards]

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On 05/08/09 14:36, John Hearns wrote:
> 2009/5/8 Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk>:
>>> I assumed this was something hypothetical. The graphics card vendors are
>> announcing new things all the time, so 'new 3D technology' is nowhere
>> near enough. (Is this something GPGPUish? If so, it's not 3D at all, but
>> a way of using your 3D card to do other computations while it's not
>> doing 3D stuff.)
> 
> Nix, if you just look at:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_GeForce_3D_VisionKit_us.html
> Its stereo-shutter glasses, and obviously you need the 120Hz display
> so that half the time it is a 60Hz display.
> 
> Actually, the wireless aspect makes it sound attractive - maybe you
> could have a meeting with several people using the glasses to look at
> a presentation of a 3D dataset.
> 
> 
> Regarding GPU computing, if you use CUDA you have to either have two
> graphics cards, or run without X.
> If you run a CUDA app plus X at the same time there is an inbuilt 10
> second timeout.
Yeah, I saw a demo of this at the Gadget Show Live event in the
Birmingham NEC, and it looked pretty cool, although the chances of this
being supported on Linux within the near future are probably next to
none. The current system requirements are 'Microsoft® Windows® Vista
32-bit or 64-bit' and it looks as though all the games are DirectX.

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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst)

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