Wayne D's Blog

Day 1 of the inaugural Nvision conference is done for me. I spend 5 hours in keynotes and boy am I sick of sitting. I saw lots of very cool and interesting demos. Nvidia spent the afternoon going over all the neat new stuff they had. I did have one brush with celebrity when Tricia Helfer did an autograph signing and meet and greet before the first keynote. I decided that I might as well stand in line since there was nothing else to do as the conference sessions hadn't started yet. The result is the picture at the top of this post. I missed my chance to see Leo Laporte, he showed his ultimate game machine while I was in of the aforementioned keynotes.

I won't comment on my opinion of the technology because my employer spent good money to send me here and you aren't getting it for free. One thing I will say is that I was disappointed to see Nvidia had hooked it's mobile horse to the Window's mobile bandwagon. I haven't heard anyone who is particularly happy with Windows mobile and to ignore Rim, Nokia and Android as possible platforms for Nvidia's mobile future is shortsighted. The speaker seemed to suggest that Windows Mobile was the only full service O/S available in the mobile space. Sorry, I'm not buying that. When speaking about the rich media experience on mobile devices he also glossed over the fact that the U.S. has no reliable high speed mobile data network. The guy sitting beside me at the keynote was so unhaopy with the 3G performance on his new iPhone that he had disabled 3G. Until the last kilometre problem is solved in the mobile space mobile computing is vapourware.

That's it, there is no more.