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>> Lockheed Martin created a spin-off dedicated to consumer 3D graphics tech called Real3D, mostly using employees from GE Aerospace. Imagine aerospace trying
by bluedino 5y ago
>> Lockheed Martin created a spin-off dedicated to consumer 3D graphics tech called Real3D, mostly using employees from GE Aerospace.
Imagine aerospace trying to compete with startups like NVIDIA and 3Dfx
- fredoralive 5y agoWell, they did have decades of experience with real time 3D from flight simulators, so what could some johnny-come-lately's really do, especially when paired with the mightly Intel? (Well, didn't work out...[1]) I suppose if the chip hadn't been a stinker I suspect Real3D would've ended up being spun out of Lockheed Martin somehow as it doesn't seem a great fit for the rest of the business. Presumably the spinoff would have less embarrasing way of being sold to Intel on the cheap and having the tech used for (motherboard) intergrated "Intel Extreme"(ly bad) graphics. [1] Although ATI wasn't exactly a startup by the 3D era, and 3DFX crashed and burned, so it wasn't quite "startups win".
- pengaru 5y agoSkunkworks
- Lammy 5y agoTBH it was super impressive stuff at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/19970102114017/http://www.real3d.com/sega.html https://web.archive.org/web/19970102114017/http://www.real3d... Solid 60FPS in 1994 on the system's debut (and probably most famous) title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcMqFTkAs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcMqFTkAs8