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Day Two E3 Report Three – Ageia

Day Two E3 Report Three - Ageia

It was about ten years ago, after 3-D gameplay had taken over the world of gaming, that dedicated 3-D accelerator cards were introduced to the market for PC gamers. They were gimmicky and expensive at first, were only supported by a few games, and a lot of people thought they were a waste of money. Ten years later, if you don’t have a 3-D accelerator in your computer you simply can’t play games. Ageia and their PhysX hardware want to be at the forefront of the next gaming revolution.

Ageia E3 Sign
The Ageia logo hangs over their booth at E3.

Ageia Takes PC Game Physics to New Level

Ageia Technologies, today at the 2006 Game Developers Conference, unveiled what they are calling the first physics processing unit (PPU) designed to power pervasive real-time physics in PC gaming. The new Ageia PhysX Accelerator will initially appear in computers from manufacturers such as Alienware and Dell, add-in boards from Asus and BFG and in-game support from more than 60 software developers and publishers.

The Ageia PhysX processor, said the company, has been specifically designed to accelerate dynamic physical motion and interaction in games which are optimized for the hardware-accelerated physics provided by the PPU. In an example Ageia cited,

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