Nvision 2008 Content Index

Our top man is out in San Jose, California attending Nvision 2008, the first Visual Computing industry get together. He'll be bringing us all the latest and most breaking news straight to the front page of bit-tech.

If you're a bit strapped for time however, or if you just don't want to wade through all the other great content we have on the site, then this is a handy breakdown of all the latest tech news from Nvision.

The older stories are lower down on the page, so if you just want to stay briefed on the latest headlines then you only need to glance at the top half of the page. The highlighted stories are the ones we reckon are of extra special interest to our readers. All links will open in a new window, so if you want to pass on your thoughts then direct them all to the forums. Enjoy!

Day Three

• Gearbox is not developing Halo 4
  We can confirm that Gearbox is not working on Halo 4 - instead, the developer's Director of Technology left to head up the new team at Microsoft.
  
  
• Nvidia has a QPI license
  Tom Petersen, Director of Technical Marketing for Nvidia's chipset business, says that Nvidia has a QPI license as part of the cross-licensing agreement.
  
  
• More on X58 SLI support
  We've got some more information on Nvidia's X58 SLI announcement following discussions with the company's chipset team.
  
  
• SLI comes natively to Intel X58
  No need for a hot and expensive NF200 chip, apparently "certified" X58 Nehalem boards will offer SLI as well.

Day Two

• Age of Conan DirectX 10 content looks stunning
  We've had a sneak peek at the final Age of Conan DirectX 10 content and it looks like it's going to be worth the delay.
  
  
• Sixense's 3D input device is awesome
  Sixense is a company that's been running for over 18 months now, but has kept itself under the radar. Its 3D input device tech was worth waiting for.

Day One

• Tricia Helfer gets graphic with visual computing
  Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer talks about how visual computing affects her role as an actor in a roundabout sort of way.
  
  
• Jeff Han gets all Minority Report on us at Nvision
  Jeff Han showed off his multi-touch technology during the opening keynote and it's incredibly cool.
  
  
• Stereoscopic 3D gaming is really cool
  Nvidia, in conjunction with Viewsonic and Mitsubishi, has been showing off stereoscopic 3D display technology and it's really cool.
  
  
• No Nvidia product announcements at Nvision
  Huang said that Nvision isn't a place for Nvidia to launch products; instead he thinks it's a chance for the visual computing industry to come together.
  
  
• Huang talks Larrabee, x86 compatibility
  Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang shared his feelings on exactly what x86 compatibility means to him.
  
  
• Nvidia: Ray tracing is too intensive for Hollywood
  The ray tracing and rasterisation debate came up during a chat I had earlier... Nvidia says that ray tracing is too much for Hollywood.
  
  
• Nvidia, Pegasys announce CUDA support for TMPGEnc
  Nvidia and Pegasys have announced CUDA support for TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress and it delivers pretty big performance gains.