It's called Birging, and it stands for Basking In Reflected Glory (psych term). People choose side (fans) in all kinds of things like sport teams and in this case gaming consoles. When a given side "wins" the fans take it as a victory for them selves even though they really had little to do with it. The perceived victory causes a sense of euphoria in the fans and some search for opposing fans to tout their victory in front of as it helps preserver their euphoric feelings. Differing ...
What I mean is this. Many games have had grass that is simply a few polys textured and animated with a local and global cycles. A local cycle would be a single blade or small clump of grass animated together to give a sense of individuality to the blades of grass, where as a global cycle would be a pre calculated cycle that affects large volumes of grass so that it looks like a gust of wind blows from one side to another. Typically you layer these local and global animations so that you end u...
it says, "It really would be impossible to make it look the same on any other system." Notice the key words LOOK THE SAME. The person isn't saying that grass couldn't be done on any other system, it just couldn't look the same using the techniques they used with the cell, because, "...John Edwards just made it happen on the SPUs. " Lets not read into things to much, but based off what was said I believe they are saying the SPU code causes the grass to look the way it does,...
I think you miss read my statement. I said that the next generation of consoles will incorporate real time ray tracing in some form or another. Ray tracing simply (understatement) casts a ray at a pixel or sub pixel level into the scene and traces it's path back to the light source(s). At it's most basic level ray tracing can be done in real time with current hardware technologies, and I even pointed out in a lower post that I had witnessed a real time ray tracer at a siggraph around 5 years ...
The key is how much ray tracing is actually being done. I saw a tech demo of a Ray tracing graphics card back around 2002-2003 at a Siggraph booth. At the time they were rendering a teapot with full shadows and reflections at roughly 640x480. I can't remember if there was any Anti-Aliasing, and they were getting roughly some where in the neighborhood of 15-20Fps. The problem is that a ray being cast per pixel or sub pixel gets significantly more complex with every object, refraction and refle...
however, with Sony in talks with Mental Images about making a cell version of mental ray, and the samples of real time ray tracing using 3 ps3's over a gigabit network, I'm far more interested in seeing what becomes of that. I suspect the next wave of consoles (PS4/XBOX720) will incorporate real time ray tracing in them in some form or another.
Who knows, maybe mental images will be able to optimize the cell based mental ray routines enough so that they could even effect the PS3 ...
The problem with a patent like this is that a patent is designed to protect an original idea; however, if it can be shown that the idea existed prior the alleged patent holder than the patent can be declared null and void. The thing about Virtual worlds is that the idea was documented in books, art, film and computer games long before this patent went into affect. Tron is a very obvious movie about a video game virtual world that came out in 1982, and MUD (Multi User Dungeon)originates from ...
I believe you have you're sites confused. Nextgenwars was the site that was run by a fanboy kid, and used a simple script in the sites code that incremented the numbers every few minutes based off a fictitious sales number. VGchatz may be off in their predictions, but nextgenwars was ridiculously wrong.
I've seen a lot of positive and negative articles for both the XBox 360 and the PS3. Personally I think the fans of each console perceive their console being the one that gets attacked the most when in all honesty they both get about equal amounts of fan boy bile.
Does stating you like pizza serve any purpose in a persons profile? For that matter why have a editable profile at all as none of it really matters when dealing with games. Unless of course it tells something about the person that could influence you wanting to play with that individual. For example if I said I like Gears of War, and some one else also liked Gears of War perhaps we would enjoy playing a game together. Similarly if for example I said I like Obama and another person thinks he i...
Has a total of 9 cores on it. 1 PPE core, and 8 SPE cores. All PS3's use only 7 of the SPE cores because it allowed for higher yields for the console market, which ultimately reduces the price of the cell processors used in the PS3. PS3's have a total of 8 cores 1 PPE and 7 SPE. A SPE is a core as it can process specific tasks given to it; however, it is not a general purpose core like the PPE unit. Just because a SPE is not a general purpose core does not mean it isn't a core at all as some ...
Standard PCM CD's are not compressed, they are just limited to 2 channels of 16bit 44.1Khz uncompressed audio. The sample rate of 44.1khz was chosen because it is over twice the maximum frequency that the average human ear can detect, and that gives the digital to analog filters enough additional data to reproduce the waveform in a clean manner. It's like anti-aliasing for audio, they give it twice as much data as is needed and thus it reproduces a more accurate analog waveform. The key is th...
I loved the sniper rifle in both incarnations of Resistance:FoM, and as soon as I read the title of the article, I knew it deserved to be in the list some where. I was happy to see it in the number one spot as it really is one of the most fun sniper rifles I've used in a game.
My work computer's firefox had started acting very oddly with in the past month. For example it would randomly hang while opening web pages, and started taking a lot longer to start. Now I'm curious if this may be the cause, as it also is about the time I did my last windows update.
Benny Hill will be quoted long past his death.
I'm sorry that you lost your dad. I'm always bothered when corporations put products over the safety of peoples lives.
This they document three separate days of 10 xbox 360s with brand new game discs all on a measured level surface kept isolated from the gamers, and on all three occasions after 5 hours of play time at least 1 or more discs were scratched by the lens. I've read about people MOVING their consoles and causing this issue, but this was a stable concrete floor on level tables. That is unacceptable, and why do the Toshiba drives bought on their own come with disc bumpers, but the ones in the 360 don...
Do people realize that "beast" from Illuminate Labs is the lighting middle ware used on the following games: Kill Zone2, Gran Turismo, Mirrors Edge, Mass Effect among others including Wet? I can agree that I'm not overly impressed with most of those screen shots; however, it looks like they are doing caustic light reflections and translucency in this game, and I'm not sure I've seen a game use those techniques before. I think Gran Turismo may, but I've not seen enough of it to say f...
I will never support draconian DRM games. That being said I'm also not a pirate. My feeling is that downloading software illegally is just another way of supporting DRM. Yes the download is DRM free, but it doesn't make the company's remove DRM, instead it pressures the company's to look for more and more invasive forms of DRM. If I desire a DRM ridden game so much that I feel the need to download it, then I would rather buy the game and deal with the DRM; however, I prefer to protest in a wa...
Leonard Nimoy has some serious folk song skeletons in his closet.
and to keep on topic, I'm curious to see the improvements they are promising in home. I personally would like it if they made it so there were no waits for things like bowling, or at least gave people a queuing system with an estimated time till a lane opens so that you can do other things until it's your turn to bowl.