You get one hell of a big display that is capable of a killer 10240 x 3072 resolution. Yup, that’s 31 whooping millions of pixel joy. It is put together by the guys at Virginia Tech’s GigaPixel Facility, with each monitor running at 1280 x 1024.
And what’s a huge display good for if it can’t be used for gaming, right? With 12 linux servers running distributed computing software to support the intensive resolution, Quake III could be played (albeit with some lighting effects turned off) at a cool 15-30 frames per second.
March 17th, 2006 at 9:20 am
Power, I wouldn’t mind playing battlefield as the general on that.
April 1st, 2006 at 3:34 am
hmm i wasn’t aware we had this on our campus. i must go see it.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Somehow I don’t think that will take off… Not when the alternative is projection which can create a screen just as big and require far less effort, money and development.