> It was pure R&D, graphics and realtime systems for their own sake. Today, this doesn't exist. 3D graphics are an applied technology that's part of an app, but

> It was pure R&D, graphics and realtime systems for their own sake. Today, this doesn't exist. 3D graphics are an applied technology that's part of an app, but not a product research area of its own. I'm quite certain there are teams here at Microsoft that do just this, and their counterparts in the GPU industry (AMD/Nvidia/Intel - although Nvidia seems to be the dominant one in research)