Be your own Maverick.
Or Goose.
Flight sim fans with a few million to spare might
like the new Link SimuSphere, which uses nine
projectors and 120 networked PCs to produce the
most realistic high-defi nition simulation to date.
How realistic? Let’s just say the fi rst customer is
the U.S. Air Force, using it to train F-16 pilots, and
they’re looking at adapting it for F/A-18 and F-22
jockeys too. More at Star-Telegram and Kotaku.
Linux leads?
Linux looks to be the fi rst operating system with
USB 3.0 support, thanks to some drivers due out
in September with the 2.6.31 kernel. USB 3.0
brings some new and interesting features, not the
least of which is “SuperSpeed”, allowing for 5Gb/s
transfers. More at Linux Mag.
AMDX11
AMD recently demonstrated some DirectX 11
capable silicon, although it won’t actually be out
and about until near the end of the year. Still, it
brings speed improvements as you’d expect, but
also a more natural and less blocky approach via
“tessellation”, as well as better use of multi-CPU
machines. “Compute Shader” allows more tasks
to be offl oaded to the GPU, including for example
in-game AI. More at techfragments
and techreport.
Fatal1ty helps
overclockers out?
NEWS
Everyone’s favourite professional gamer
Fatal1ty (this may be a lie - Ed) has teamed
up with crazy-fast storage experts, Fusion-io
to bring a PCI Express SSD to the enthusiast
market. The resulting 80GB ioXtreme comes
in at under US$900 which is less than its
competitors, but still a hefty amount of cash for
80GB. The claimed speeds of around 600MB/s
make it blisteringly fast, though. More from
OCAU and Fusion-io themselves.
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