Attached Link: http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/2002/1120/kaigai1_10.htm

Hi, I sat through the first hour of marketing blurb of the GeForce FX product lauch just to watch the "Dawn" demo, because having seen still pictures of the model, I had to see her moving. It really is fairly impressive, at least to a point. That point being when I found out that they went to Square Studios, (the makers of the Final Fantasy movie) and got them to build her instead. Which is no small feat really. you've essentially got Aki Ross' Fae cousin wandering around in realtime on an (admitedly high-end) consumer Gfx card. Retail cards won't be out for at least four months, and like the competition (the ATI Radeon 9700pro) it'll take two years for games to advance to a point where they can make full use of the capabilities of the hardware. It's a fairly kick ass demo, but then given that it's only marginally better than the competition, and it's not going to be here for Christmas, I suppose it had to be :) I've scoured the web to find a copy of the movie, it's a bit grainy as it was taken from a camcorder, but it should give you a flavour of what the latest hardware is capable of doing. Even if the software we're going to run on it comes out of the ark... :) The same video shown as part of the launch movie is a little darker and a bit better, IMO, but you need to watch it all as it's a streaming download. www.nvidia.com if you want more. Jusk right click on the mpeg link on the page, (or watch it) one you've opened the link.

Damn, now THAT's realistic. Love those eyes! :o)))))

Looks pretty good if you ask me.

Nvidia is making some real progress here. Only problem is this technology isn't something whe can use YET. Poser 5 doen't even have direct3d support (direct3d is 6 years old). Thing I hate is that they are showing you this beautifull technology but you can't have it. 3Dprogramms will probably start making use of it in 3/4 years from now and games 2 years. Yes I know she is very beautifull and realistic and almost lifelike but why does it has to take such a god damn long time before they incoorporate this technology into the latest software?? I know the answer but I don't want to think about it, bah. In the meantime I'll just download every single GeforceFX trailer there is to see what the distant future for us will look like.

The reason it takes so long is that you have to have the hardware technology before you can make software that utilizes it. It takes time to design software...2 years is not an unreasonable amount of time for development (likely more). Doom 3 is supposed to utilize the new technology. It is currently set for release mid-2003 (so around christmas). Evo

I thought that the demo of Yeah! the Movie was rather impressive, also. Especially the fact that Nvidia could do dynamic cloth simulation for the ogre's costume in real-time.

http://www.yeahthemovie.de/