Expect one of the first commercial implementations of LightStage and this server-side rendering technology to come in the form of a virtual world.
For example, the Kinetica GPU-database engine supports advanced location intelligence, including 80+ geospatial functions, WMS support, server-side rendering, geospatial visual dashboards with heat map capability and much more – all this purpose-built for GPUs.
Even with today's announcement, it is yet to be seen whether AMD's hardware can get OTOY's server-side rendering to scale effectively, let alone work over the broadband connections available to most end users.
Last week we posted a pair of videos showing off OTOY, the upcoming server-side rendering service that can stream complex 3D games to your computer through any web browser.
However, Opera just submitted an application for an Opera Mini app for the iPhone, which it claims is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression and server-side rendering technology.
They built some amazing software: to provide server-side rendering of games, convert website mockups to HTML/CSS, create sophisticated playlists for Youtube videos, and to analyze Twitter streams.
Unlike Opera Mini and the company's earliest attempts at launching iOS browsers, Coast does not use Opera's server-side rendering service and relies on Apple's own built-in rendering engine instead.
And Opera just submitted an application for an Opera Mini app for the iPhone, which it claims is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression and server-side rendering technology.
The company says Opera Mini for iPhone is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression and server-side rendering technology, based on internal tests, and after having tried it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year I have to say it's definitely zooming.
Opera Software claims Opera Mini for iPhone is up to 6 times faster than the native browser thanks to its compression and server-side rendering technology, based on internal tests, and after having tried it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona myself I have to say it's definitely zooming.
