By now you’ve no doubt probably heard about AGEIA’s PhysX physics processing unit, first announced by AGEIA at GDC last year. PhysX has been hyped to change the way games are played, as physics processing could potentially be used to handle a wide range of effects, and we’re not just talking simple stuff like shooting a barrel to see a larger explosion or other geometry-based eye candy effects that have been handled by GPUs and CPUs up to this point..



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