I missed this when it was originally published earlier this week, but Guru3D has video and information on a new demo that NVidia is showing off with their Fermi based products: the SuperSonic Sled.
Personally I feel that SuperSonic Rocket Sled is the best demo NVIDIA has ever made. We've seen and done all the facial animations, dusks, dawns and what not. What you are seeing with the SuperSonic Sled demo is pretty amazing as the demo is very rich in objects, triangle count, quality textures, complex shaders, depth of field, but more so massive volumetric particles and liquid PhysX implementations and very rich geometric detail thanks to the hardware tessellation functionality embedded into the GF100 GPU. So from a technology point of view, this is the most advanced demo NVIDIA has ever designed.
Now, I’m sure there is a lot of smoke and mirrors going on here, as anyone who’s had experience with real-time graphics can attest. Focus-directed level of detail, variable resolutions, etc, but still it’s very impressive. The graphics are of such quality that I personally have difficulty believing that it’s actually rendered real-time, it looks like a professional MentalRay rendering (interesting side note, NVidia owns MentalRay now).
I really hope NVidia doesn’t keep this to themselves, and releases it to the public along with the GF100 cards. See the partial video of the demo below (They were not allowed to record the full demo).
Not sure how, but the guys at PCGamesHardware have a much longer video (almost 5 minutes) showing not only the “full run” of the poor pilot, but the various interactive and wireframe features of the demo, proving that it’s entirely interactive and not a movie.
via NVIDIA GF100 (Fermi) Technology preview.
Update: Brian Burke confirms that it will be downloadable.
