Topic: Holy Crap! *New Tech/Gadget Thread*

[BlackNMild2k1]

Unlimted Detail re-emerges with a new video (it's entertaining and humorous)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUuUvDSXk4

I would love to see this tech get into the hands of some actual game designers so we can see what can really be done with it. I also hope it works flawlessly on upcoming hardware (cough*WiiU*cough) so that I will actually be able to play games that use it.

[Stogi]

That's always fascinating. Building objects with tiny objects is always fascinating, however, I do not expect this to come out any time soon nor will we see this technology in the next several years. Of course I hope I'm wrong, but this company seems very undependable. You can't stick your neck out then become a recluse for a year. You also can't do the same thing again.

So I hope what they say is true because I believe them when they say polygonal technology is dying, but I can't help but think they are bullshitting, especially since within the last year, we haven't heard of any other companies make the same sort of advancement.

[oohhboy]

I trades one technical limitation for another. Instead of recomputing the geometry each and every time, it goes into RAM and treats the whole world like a big giant look up table. Note there is currently no physics, no animation(have to attach those voxels to a frame work or skeleton), no real time lighting, the same "set" of objects, no ability to alter the environment, it's completely non-interactive.

They have traded processing power, something that so far effectively still doubles every 18/24 months for a godly amount of RAM needed to store all those objects, not to mention the loading times even with an SSD. No Next Gen console will use this whole, just from the lack of RAM. It might find limited use as far as hybrid systems where you might want one object with very high detail, say a non-destructible building, but it's resource footprint would be huge compared to it's traditional counterpart especially on things like consoles. Note they don't tell you what that demo is running on.

So yeah, you might see some limited applications next gen, but I wouldn't even put money on that.

[ThePerm]

they just have to combine minecraft with that and then you'll have a working game. Minecraft works on similar principles except its for the most part flat blocks. There are algorithms that generate terrain, but if you were to replace the blocks with pre-made better voxel blocks then it would look amazing.

[BlackNMild2k1]

GE promotes '500GB' Blue Laser Disc. InPhase calls it a "science project"
then says they will be on market next year with more GB and much faster write times
http://www.macworld.com/article/161386/2011/08/ge_holographic.html

Article summary;
GE: We have a blue laser disc that holds 20X the space of a bluray with the same recording speed
IP: We have 25X the space of Bluray and 4X the recording speed. And unlike GE, we also have a backlog of clients and are confident that we will deliver product to market next year
[article notes how InPhase has repeatedly failed to bring anything to market after multiple years of saying they would]
IP: we have new management.... we've got it together this time, we promise
GE: and did we mention that our tech is backwards compatible with Bluray, DVD & CD?

[oohhboy]

Not to mention that it takes over a day to burn a bloody disc.

Then there is a section devoted to "Tapes! We have Tapes!". I know this stuff is for the archive market, but it comes off as some kiddy pool pissing match.

[Stogi]

I think the internet and internet speeds 10 years from now will make all this archive technology pretty moot. Amazon's S3 is already doing it.

[NWR_insanolord]

There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built up before that can happen, at least in the US.

[Ceric]

I think the internet and internet speeds 10 years from now will make all this archive technology pretty moot. Amazon's S3 is already doing it.

There's a lot of infrastructure that needs to be built up before that can happen, at least in the US.

Agreed.  We can't keep our roads maintained for Goodness sakes and People see those everyday. 

[ThePerm]

they just have to combine minecraft with that and then you'll have a working game. Minecraft works on similar principles except its for the most part flat blocks. There are algorithms that generate terrain, but if you were to replace the blocks with pre-made better voxel blocks then it would look amazing.

http://notch.tumblr.com/

Notch has spoken

[EasyCure]

One step closer to the Bionic Man
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13378036

Guy demonstrates his bionic hand.

It's a little slow on reaction, but I bet it has a helluva grip.

I know this is an amazing technology that will help so many once it becomes affordable enough, but I can't help but thinking..

HOLY FUCKING **** THAT'S SO COOL I WANT ONE!

[kraken613]

Instead of putting down $180 on a 3DS I decided to do a bit of a PC upgrade instead.

Found a Nvidia 560 Ti for $177 after rebate, then a 64gb SSD for $50 after rebate. Also bought a new CPU cooler and am going to do a bit of an overclock on this PC.

I wanted to get back into gaming on my PC a bit more and since my good ole 4850 had started to give me fits it was the perfect time to do it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Unlimted Detail re-emerges with a new video (it's entertaining and humorous)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUuUvDSXk4

I would love to see this tech get into the hands of some actual game designers so we can see what can really be done with it. I also hope it works flawlessly on upcoming hardware (cough*WiiU*cough) so that I will actually be able to play games that use it.

2 new interviews
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/tech-focus-unlimited-detail-technology?page=1

Q: How compatible is your system with the vertices/skeletal animation/surface texture approach we see now?


Bruce Dell: I think we are criticised the most in the area of animation. Yes we can do animation, but it's not finished yet. Last time, we learnt that if we were to put anything on the internet that wasn't finished, there would be hordes of forum people who are more grumpy than that donkey from Winnie the Pooh who would point the finger and say, "look at that, that doesn't look as good as polygons" no matter how hard we tried to say, "but we're only half done". I'm sure our supporters understand the wisdom of us being silent on the topic of animation until it's completed. I think when it comes to animation you will all be pleasantly surprised at what we've achieved.

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http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/08/10/euclideon_unlimited_detail_bruce_dell_interview
^Video interview. Running the Unlimited detail from a laptop.

[ThePerm]

i think Notch's big gripe was in the actual language of UD video, obviously theres lots of repetition, and no way each grain of dirt is different.  From someone who has worked with all numbers of tools, the biggest thing any developer has to overcome is making the tools easier to build things with.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Soldiers of the Future: Bullet Proof Humans?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2026645/Bulletproof-human-skin-spider-silk-goat-milk-developed-scientists.html

-Researchers genetically engineered goats to produce milk packed with the same protein as silk spiders
-The protein is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material ten times stronger than steel

‘Imagine a spidersilk vest, capable of catching bullets, the modern day equivalent of Genghis Khan’s arrows,’ she said.
‘Now, let’s take this one step further, why bother with a vest: imagine replacing keratin, the protein responsible for the toughness of the human skin, with this spidersilk protein.
‘This is possible by adding the silk producing genes of a spider to the gnome of a human: creating a bulletproof human.

At first I thought they were genetically altering the human being, but then it seemed like thgey were just making a second skin.... No. They are attempting to create actual bulletproof humans.
Now we must combat this with laser guns and more hand grenades.

[Stogi]

Not necessarily. They could spray us with a modified version of our own skin cells. We'd have to reapply ourselves roughly every month though.

[ThePerm]

its so weird anytime i hear Dutch, Finnish, or Swedish. I took German and between it and English theres some sort of continuum.

I wonder would it be possible to build buildings out of this stuff.

[BranDonk Kong]

I just want a bulletproof nutsack.

[SixthAngel]

I just want a bulletproof nutsack.

Plan on shooting a lot of "web"?

[Ceric]

Soldiers of the Future: Bullet Proof Humans?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2026645/Bulletproof-human-skin-spider-silk-goat-milk-developed-scientists.html

-Researchers genetically engineered goats to produce milk packed with the same protein as silk spiders
-The protein is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material ten times stronger than steel

‘Imagine a spidersilk vest, capable of catching bullets, the modern day equivalent of Genghis Khan’s arrows,’ she said.
‘Now, let’s take this one step further, why bother with a vest: imagine replacing keratin, the protein responsible for the toughness of the human skin, with this spidersilk protein.
‘This is possible by adding the silk producing genes of a spider to the gnome of a human: creating a bulletproof human.

At first I thought they were genetically altering the human being, but then it seemed like thgey were just making a second skin.... No. They are attempting to create actual bulletproof humans.
Now we must combat this with laser guns and more hand grenades.

Different type of slicing Bullets.

[Caliban]

Back to the future?

For those that don't believe it.

[BranDonk Kong]

My foot just got a boner.

[Morari]

Back to the future?

For those that don't believe it.

I'd rather have a hoverboard...

[Caliban]

One step at a time, Morari. We need the jacket, and then we can get that hoverboard.

[oohhboy]

"Heavy"

Also too cool to wear.