A Simple View! Hewlett-Packard's Remote Graphics software brings easy, real-time, 3D viewing capabilities to a wider audience

摘要

I hope you've had a chance to see Shrek2 by now! I was fortunate enough to steal a march on my grand-children by seeing it in July - before it came out in the UK, It was the high point of a Press trip to Colorado, courtesy of HP Well not the only high point of course! Besides being introduced to the latest in HP's line of workstations, we also had a preview of HP's Remote Graphics, A remote pre-view, as it happened, as we haven't been able to talk about it until now, It was quite an impressive pre-view as well, as we were sat in front of a wall sized screen to view the presentation - a demonstration of the capabilities of interactive 3D graphics that can be viewed on quite modestly equipped PCs over a standard 56K modem - without even requiring an expensive graphics cards. The implications for any graphics oriented industry are quite dramatic, Real-time collaboration can be extended well beyond the sphere of the graphics professional, or the design engineer, Viewers are provided with realistic levels of imagery on a secure system, at a fraction of the cost of previous solutions, And the significance of Shrek2? Well, Remote Graphics software was used by DreamWorks, the renowned film production company to get all of its disparate teams working together simultaneously on the Shrek2 project.