pure fantasy - graphics/computing standard for 3-4 years

[megadrive0088]

You know, I wish there was a company or alliance that came up with a computer and graphics standard that would last for 3-4 years. the graphics system, memory and CPU would all be extrodinaraly advanced at the time of its intorduction. Perhaps in a fantasy senareo, SGI plus IBM. IBM would provide 2 four-way Power4 chips (16 cores in total)
while SGI (having kept the talented people that formed ArtX) came up with the graphics system with Lots of embedded memory and 32 pipelines. memory subsystem would be 2 GB DDR or DDRII plus 256-512MB QDR or "QDR-1T-SRAM" for you MoSys fans out there. The machine is sold at very low pricepoints to break into the market, truly challenging the PC in a way that Mac could not. Games and 3D desktop productivity apps would be the driving applications, where 3D is vitally important. cost is $500 for the box without monitor. any monitor can be used and even PC peripherals can work but a set of specific periphs could be used also. Nintendo or some other console company uses this architecture as the basis for its console, removing one of the Power4 chips and some of the main memory to save costs (the graphics are exactly the same and so is the graphics memory) - the bus systems and embedded memory are what really make the most out of this machine (much like GC) Games developed for the console version work on the computer version. with computer apps, there is no conflict with hardware, since its all the same and remains so for 3 years at least.

and so ends my no so well written fantasy on a computer/graphics standard.

Merry Christmas to all!

 

[Tahir2]

And IBM one of the largest companies on the planet then proceeds to go bust, taking with it Microsoft, Intel and several large fab partners in Taiwan.

What happens next is that Apple survive, AMD start making VIA based Cyrix chips and a form of Be becomes the standard Desktop OS.

Oh and Nintendo decide to re-release the SNES with sfx chip built in and Sega start making Sonic games for Nintendo (oh that already happened).

 

[JD]

Won't happen as both SGI and IBM are targeting businesses not Joe Average. That's where the higher profit margins come from. Investors would be peeved off otherwise. I think now we have a good thing going. I can't wait for gpus to have large enough store where hlsl would become a reality. Right now shaders are kindof limited, you have to watch out for blowing your shader length limit as well as other restrictions placed by existing drivers. It's kindof complicated now hopefully in future this will get to be easier. We will be close to reality when we can hop into a holodeck for an adventure. That would be neat

 

[Brent]

Holographic technology, that is the future my friend

imagine the kind of video system to run a truely 3d hologram, all volume textured and everything

i want monitors to go away

and instead will be a little pod or something that can project a 3d image that you can set for whatever size, in dimensions, you want so it fits in the area you are projecting it, it can be straight up in the air, doesn't have to be on a wall, cause it'll be a true holographic image

and you will also be able to change its translucency all the way from opaque to however see-through you want it

my fantasy

 

[alexsok]

Just watch Minority Report, that's what I'm talking about!

 

[KimB]

Just watch Minority Report, that's what I'm talking about!

Yeah, that is very cool stuff. I'm just not sure I'd like the fully-transparent screens. Might be hard to see some things, dependent upon room lighting. But as for a GUI, yeah, that's just amazing stuff.

 

[790]

Just watch Minority Report, that's what I'm talking about!

But as for a GUI, yeah, that's just amazing stuff.

Only design flaw seemed to be that by the time you've checked your e-mail and caught up with the morning news, you'd be nackered for the rest of the day from all that arm waving.

 

[Mummy]

PS3 console and the PS3-based PC will probably be what you asked.

 

[MfA]

I dont see Sony marketing a computer with an open development model using PS3 technology, it would compete with the console ... and I wouldnt call a computer without an open development model a personal computer. More like a console with a keyboard, not something Im terribly interested in.

 

[Hyp-X]

Just watch Minority Report, that's what I'm talking about!

But as for a GUI, yeah, that's just amazing stuff.

Only design flaw seemed to be that by the time you've checked your e-mail and caught up with the morning news, you'd be nackered for the rest of the day from all that arm waving.

Another design flaw is that you can't use computer networks any more, you have to transfer data via disks even between computers that are next to each other...

 

[Dave B(TotalVR)]

Holographic technology, that is the future my friend

imagine the kind of video system to run a truely 3d hologram, all volume textured and everything

i want monitors to go away

and instead will be a little pod or something that can project a 3d image that you can set for whatever size, in dimensions, you want so it fits in the area you are projecting it, it can be straight up in the air, doesn't have to be on a wall, cause it'll be a true holographic image

and you will also be able to change its translucency all the way from opaque to however see-through you want it

my fantasy

Such a thing is possible, you can represent volume a hologram using an LCD display and just shine laser light through it (alternating red green and blue). Trouble is it will effectively triple the response time of your LCD which is too slow as it is.