My employer has been involving me more and more with 3D technology development for the company. Very nice indeed !!
From time to time, I get involved with very interesting technology previews. What I see is not what I can report of. Also early preview of things don't normally tell the whole story. However, it seems that programmability is coming back in a big way.
This is somewhat obvious, considering how programmable shaders are getting constantly more powerful and pervasive. Also, with the PS3 almost going Cell-only, with nVidia releasing CUDA and with the academical world wishing for more GPGPU.

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