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Sony didn’t release its PlayStation - until on Sept 9, 1995,
SEGAWorld opened its doors in Sept 1996 when the contract ended in Sept 1999 as SEGA struggled financially with attendance the interior transferred to the popular Funland amusement arcade, in total operated in total for 15 years, closing in May 2011 as it became run down it was associated in the Media with the increase of young gangs Triad and other ethnicity organized violence.
The 20th Bafta Games Awards rank Sonic the Hedgehog as the 4th most popular character of all time. April 2024
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It was followed by NAMCO opening Namco Station located on the ground to basement levels of County Hall. In Aug 1997.
SEGA released the Dreamcast in Japan on Nov 1998 the same year The album Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released and on 9/9/1999 in North America its final games Console, running a custom version of Microsoft Windows CE with DirectX API.
One Gigabyte GD-ROM is a proprietary optical disc format originally used for the Dreamcast video game console, as well as its arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI and select Triforce arcade board titles.
Their are reports that in 1996, Nvidia a relatively new company spend time and large funds on R&D for a GPU for the DreamCast but was unable to meet the demands, NVidia was close to folding, when SEGA America CEO offered NVidia a $5 million life-line in their early years. Link
Recently Nvidia Corp. has claimed another milestone by overtaking Apple and Microsoft in market value, making the chipmaker the World’s most valuable public company.
The NAOMI New Arcade Operation Machine Idea arcade board, was adapted into the hardware of the Dreamcast so that arcade titles could be ported onto the system more easily. included several Namco and Capcom titles.
Phantasy Star Online online role-playing game (RPG) developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2000 for the Dreamcast. It was the first successful online RPG for game consoles.
The Xbox GPU was a performance-segment gaming console graphics solution by NVIDIA, launched on November 15th, 2001 running on amodified version of Windows 2000 and incorporating DirectX API features optimized for the home consoles. (Hence X box) graphics chip "NV2A" ASIC. Co-developed by Microsoft and Nvidia essentially a variant of PC Geforce 3 chips, frame rates struggled with the more ambitious fast past scenes in Halo including the escape the flood. See city and urban planning
Modern games console standby power consumption equivalent to a lightbulb multiply by millions of units.
Prof Lakin Architectural surveying “that better results than many 3D scanning technologies”
The right to Spiderman was owned by Marvel until 1999, when Sony bought them for $7 million. He has been Marvel's most successful character in the cinema industry ever since.
At the Sony Square films screening of Final Fantasy the Spirit Within, The Sony pictures team previewed the first screening of the Spider-Man film E3 2001 trailer 2002 film, Sony used the same Font styling with the release Sony PlayStation 3 from 2006 until 2009.
Western advanced CAD software was often pirated and distributed with Malware, recently a spider-man film became the highest pirated film in history, it contained Bitcoin mining code, hijacking in the background millions of computers.
Motion capture actors are complaining they left traumatised at being made to with little to no notice to enact an increasing amount of “disgusting” violent or sexual explicit scenes to sell Computer games. BBC news Link
Grand Theft Auto Cert 18 an action-adventure video game developed by DMA Design and published by BMG Interactive. first title of the Grand Theft Auto series released in Nov 1997 on PC for MS-DOS and Windows, Max Clifford marketing courted controversy of its theme stealing cars, running over pedestrians and completing jobs for a powerful hoodlum.
There was calls for the game to be band resulting in then Scottish secretary Lord Campbell of Croy condemning the game in the House of Lords.
Photogrammetry 3D Scanner
Met the UK Passport identity expert in 2015 and discussed geometry ratio studies of the face from Photo ID and 3d printing, created optimised high detail Virtual Reality model for use with mobile devices, annotations include medical observations i.e. Eye veins and Dilation, small scares, skin conditions, colour accuracy High Dynamic Range HDR Image and lighting
Hollywood Film stars are now stating in their contract clauses that the technology is not used as it highlights where they have undergone cosmetic surgery.
HDR image environmental lighting
In the past Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) code was used in CAD software to utilise multiple processors, using multi threading cycles, today complex graphics processor hungry tasks including image recognition photogrammetry utilise multi core CPU and GPU cores in modern graphics processors, this example uses Nvidia CUDA cores to increase the thread count the calculations carried out at once greatly reducing processing time.
In 2003 Met one of the gaming industry 3D artists who modelled Heads, who explained the amount of work involved in modelling a head at the time and the industry not paying for what was involved.
Photogrammetry has since become the industry standard for gaming and film using digital SLR cameras surrounding the subject and software that utilise Graphics processor CUDA, Raytracing or Tensor cores are used while AI image processing is used for deepfaking imaging of deceased actors.
Provided Technical colour advice to film industry FX artist, Head of 3D Scanning at Pinewood Studios work includes James Bond and Star Wars films to name a few.
