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Dynamic Pictures Releases Oxygen 402
Dynamic Pictures next week will make available the Oxygen 402, the 3rd
board in their Oxygen line which already includes the Oxygen 102 and
202. The Oxygen 402 will be the industry's first quad-processor
graphics accelerator, utilizing four Oxygen processors (the Oxygen 102
and 202 use one and 2 processors, respectively), reportedly offering
four times the performance of the Oxygen 102. The Oxygen 402 features
32 MB of SDRAM. In addition, a new pricing structure will be put into
effect:
Oxygen 102 8 MB SDRAM $995 (30% off original price)
Oxygen 202 16 MB SDRAM $2,095 (25% off original price)
Oxygen 402 32 MB SDRAM $3,695
www.dypic.com/oxygen402.html
ATI Bundles Cosmo Player
ATI Technologies and SGI have announced an agreement under which ATI
will bundle SGI's Cosmo Player VRML 2.0 browser with future 3D Rage
accelerators (OEM and retail board products). Cosmo Player is supported
on Windows 95, Windows NT and SGI platforms.
www.atitech.ca
www.sgi.com/cosmo
MCAS GmbH Moves
MCAS GmbH, the makers of 3D-Calculator 1.4 ($50, for creating
mathematical 3D mesh objects by formulas) and Shell-Maker 1.0 ($30, for
creating shells and slughouses), has moved to a new address:
MCAS GmbH
Kapellenstr. 12
D-79189 Bad Krozingen
Germany
Tel: +49-7633-949358
CIS: 100561,3542
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/blexow
RealVideo From Progressive
Progressive Networks, the makers of the popular RealAudio software for
the Internet, have introduced RealVideo for playing streaming video
over the Internet. It is available integrated with RealAudio in the new
RealPlayer 4.0 and RealPlayer Plus 4.0 software. RealPlayer 4.0 is
available free from Progressive's Web site; the full-featured
RealPlayer Plus 4.0 is available for $29.95. More than 60 sites
reportedly already provide RealVideo content.
www.real.com/rvnba.html
Real3D Releases Pro-1000 API v2.0
Real3D (a subsidiary of Lockheed-Martin) has released version 2.0 of
their Real 3D Pro-1000 Series API. The front-end software package comes
bundled with graphics engines in the Pro-1000 family, and all current
Pro-1000 Series users will receive automatic software upgrades. Key new
functions include: morphing geometry support, immediate mode geometry
and animation, LOD nodes, device hardware feedback, and improved ease-
of-use features.
www.real3d.com
Intergraph - Higher Performance With 3D Pro 1000
Intergraph has announced increased OpenGL performance for their Intense
3D Pro 1000 accelerator through improvements in the OpenGL installable
client driver (ICD). The improvements offer a reported performance
increase of 47% over previous versions of the OpenGL driver, now
delivering a CDRS Viewperf benchmark score of 19.59 at 24-bit color
depths.
www.intergraph.com
www.specbench.org/gpc/opc.static/index.html
Intergraph - Alliance With Imagination in Motion
Intergraph has signed a letter of intent with Imagination in Motion
(IIM), a leading European 3D graphics facility, for a preliminary order
of $3.6 million of Intergraph workstations. Specifically, the systems
will be used in the production of an 80-minute 3D computer-generated
animation, which will be the first feature-length film produced on the
Windows NT platform.
www.intergraph.com
Monster Sound From Diamond
Diamond Multimedia has unveiled the Monster Sound PCI-based audio
accelerator, featuring "the same 3D audio technology used in NASA 3D
sound simulators and theme park rides." Designed specifically to
support Microsoft's DirectX APIs, Monster Sound is capable of providing
up to 24 independent audio streams, a signal-to-noise ratio > 80 db and
quad-speaker output. The accelerator utilizes A3D position sound
technology from Aureal Semiconductor and audio CODEC components from
Analog Devices Inc. along with Diamond's own Freedom 5600 multimedia
ASIC. Monster Sound will be available in April along with a software
bundle for $199.95.
www.diamondmm.com
CyberPak Now at Dave & Busters
Dave & Busters, the national high-tech entertainment and restaurant
chain, has made an initial purchase of Virtual Images' CyberPak virtual
reality systems for $160,000. Virtual Images, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Toronto-based Outer Edge Inc., is a leader in real-time immersive VR
development.
Wave Issue 9705 3/14/97 Article 1-01