The original game in the series, Penumbra: Overture, was actually created as
a tech demo by the indie developer for a Swedish game development competition.
Not exact matches
(Evidently,
tech companies can't help but make all their assistants female: In the
demos, Google Assistant speaks
by default in a woman's voice, like both Alexa and Siri.)
We do this
by rallying the community together to discuss, discover and
demo the latest in wearable
tech at events in various cities and
by sharing stories, ideas and information on our blog and social networks.
The
tech talk was presented
by CTO Stefan Thomas and software engineer Evan Schwartz to a full house on November 20, 2014 at Around the World in 5 Seconds, a special night of
demos and celebration at Ripple Labs headquarters in downtown San Francisco.
The
tech demo that Wii Sports was is still better
by leaps and bounds than this abomination.
Marvel has announced a new program entitled «The Ant - Man Micro
Tech Challenge» that aims to bring girls ages 14 through 18 into the world of science (and
by extension, raise awareness of July's Ant - Man among that
demo).
By then, Twilight Princess wouldn't be playable at all on that system anymore, and the graphics would be even better than that
tech demo.
An event that started as a few days of local jam bands in 1987 Austin, Texas has grown to The South
By Southwest Conference and Festivals (affectionately known as SXSW, or just «South
By»), one of the largest and rangiest agglomerations of entertainment on the planet: over a week of film screenings, seminars, concerts, comedy, and gaming and
tech demos.
Back in the days when that
tech demo was shown, it was something to be awed
by.
More importantly, their
demo, run
by Mac development
tech head Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), is on the verge of becoming an embarrassing failure.
We also confirmed that the Desert Winds
tech demo will actually morph into a real game, scheduled to arrive
by the end of the year, though many of the proposed details (character, storyline) will change between now and then.
This one game could redeem Kinect
by itself, allowing players to look after there virtual animals using motion sensing, while it's still a casual gamer friendly title it's a good
demo of the
tech involved.
And with one of the German retailers listing Agnis Philosophy (Final Fantasy
tech demo shown at E3 2012) and Resident Evil 7 (a game rumored, but unconfirmed to be in development
by Capcom) for PS4 as well, a great amount of salt should be taken with this latest news.
To prove that, NVIDIA RTX
tech demos, powered
by Volta - architecture GPUs, will be unveiled
by 4A Games, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Remedy Entertainment, and Unity this week at GDC 2018.
Screenshots from Remedy Entertainment's real - time ray tracing
tech demo running on their Northlight engine, made possible
by NVIDIA RTX Technology, Microsoft's DXR API, and a Volta - architecture GPU
AMD GPU 14 Launch to be accompanied
by CryEngine 3 Powered Ruby
Tech Demo, Star Citizen and Lichdom.
And there is no way on Earth that, apart from not being a cohesive «game» (just glorified
tech demos), that those would be considered completed, let alone a part of a whole game
by end of 2015.
After the fiasco that was Watch Dogs, in which the promised visuals and features weren't completely delivered (the infamous 2012 E3 trailer and the final product), I was initially impressed
by The Division's E3 reveal
tech demo, but I took it with some hesitation.
The small
tech demo provided
by director and franchise creator David Jones back in 2014, showed off the potential of this
tech, as he was able to completely level buildings and even shooting holes through walls.
Be sure to stop
by the Garage Games booth on the Expo Floor to see some great new
tech we've been contributing to Torque 3D, and have a go at our lush «South Pacific»
demo.
Ultimately, there's very little game here but as a
tech demo, The Deep gives an indication of the extra dimensions offered
by VR, which is something that Sony's London Studio has been experimenting with for some time.
During their press conference, Sony presented a teaser for a
tech demo created
by Quantic Dream, running in real time on PS4.
«Nixxes put together a
tech demo of Rise of the Raider content running on Xbox 360, and we were totally blown away
by what they achieved,» he said.
Images of Jodie Holmes, as played
by Ellen Page, can be seen in the PS4
tech demo at the start of the following video.
See for yourself later this week when stunning NVIDIA RTX
tech demos are released
by several of the industry's best developers.
Think back to the story of the first Apple Macintosh launch, conducted
by Steve Jobs, who basically invented the onstage
tech demo as we know it today.
Founded
by a group of eager gamers from Sweden with a dream to become game developers themselves, the company attracted much media attention in 2006 when it released (initially with little fanfare) a
tech demo that was disguised as a game called Penumbra.
The final
tech demo, Siren, is just as striking when you consider how this digital character (based on the likeness of actress Bingjie Jiang) was not only rendered but actually driven in real time
by an actress.
By teasing a realistic art style in the
tech demo, Nintendo opened the floodgates for abuse when the next real game in the system turned out to be adorable, colorful fun.
I must admit to having been seriously underwhelmed
by the ROSS
demo that I saw 18 months ago, but, as we all know, 18 months is a long time in the
tech sphere, and, as in the financial sector, «Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.»
Obviously, I had no time to test that at the
demo booth but from whatever few camera samples that I've seen posted online
by prominent
tech bloggers and journalists, the results in low light look super impressive.
Still, the first time you put on a Vive and test out Google's Tilt Brush (which is absolutely incredible
by the way), Vanishing Realms or Valve's The Lab (a compilation of
tech demos), it's easy to tell there's something revolutionary buried inside the Vive's room - scale technology.
The
demo version of the program is available
by searching for «Palm -
Tech» in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.