NVIDIA CEO Confirms Pricey PS3?
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/638/638074p1.htmlhttp://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=c...id=619&Itemid=2SCEI and Nvidia Push Open Source APIs
The Khronos Group, an industry consortium devoted to furthering the creation of open API standards, has given Nvidia and SCEI seats on the board of director
The group, which has supported such APIs as Collada, OpenGL ES, OpenMAX, OpenML, OpenVG and OpenSL ES, will likely see support in future hardware from Sony and Nvidia by giving them increased voice in the direction these APIs evolve.
"Nvidia believes strongly in the power of open standards to create market opportunities and the embedded and handheld industries are today's high growth markets that are demanding advanced media capabilities," said Neil Trevett, president of the Khronos Group, chairman of the OpenGL ES Working Group and vice president of embedded content at Nvidia. "Nvidia's Promoter membership will enable us to continue to initiate and influence key Khronos initiatives that are creating significant business opportunities for both Nvidia and the industry."
"Collada has already made great progress with strong industry support -- and now the time has come to formalize our standardization process by joining Khronos to ensure that any company can parti(pipi)te in its development and to ensure the standard will always be freely available," said Masa Chatani, Corporate Executive and CTO at SCEI. "SCEI remains fully committed to Collada: it forms a key part of the PlayStation3 tools strategy. SCEI has become a Khronos Promoter so that we can fully support Collada, OpenGL ES and other Khronos standards."
Collada in particular has been created and supported by a variety graphics companies including Alias, Autodesk, SoftImage, Havok, ATI and 3DLabs. The announcement today could have some far reaching implications on the ease of development for PS3 as far as allowing developers to use existing pipelines and not having to recreate aspects of models, textures, shaders and other pipeline effects specifically for Sony's hardware.