As someone that has been using 3D modeling/animation software since i was 12 (sigh which is to say 14 years of expierence in 3D studio, cinema 4D, softimage, lightwave, maya, Bryce, Vue D'ispirit, Carrara, Lightscape, Alias Studio, Caligari TrueSpacce, Poser, Autocad, and even Rhino 3D....and all the little addins and effects packs that go along with them....go to the list of autodesk products...i've used them all..with every yearly update release so did i upgrade my software. As others have mentioned it's been possible to achieve this kind of quality rendering for near a decade...it's just a matter of how long it takes to do so.
From the broken explination they gave on the process of creating the so called "3D models" they just had the actors stand still..and took photos from multiple angles to get the full texture map they needed.
Take the photos and line them up to appear as one solid texture/photo/of-course-we're-still-artists guide line.
use the image as a guideline for laying out the mesh vertex points.
put them in the proper location to have a poly statue so they can put the bone structure and joints in to bend them as if still real people.
Then remain oblivious to the fact that if what they claim is true hollywood will no longer require living actors....for anything.
...and celeb sex tapes are going to get a whoooole lot more interesting as the 80 year old woodshop teacher from the local highschool appears in a "home video" with angelina jolie, rosanne, and Chris farley steam up the windows of the van down by the river so they don't have to see david spades sad face peering through the rear door window because he isn't big enough to ride this ride.
With the eventual claim by former president dubya that "i told you i didn't say them thing....that must be how they made me say them things i said i never said as i watched 'em on the video box"
Nvidia didn't have a working board for the stage demo.
They have announced no offical launch date
They're already plauged with setbacks and insiders from MS, AMD, Intel, and nvidia itself were saying at the time nvidias new imagination Gfx card...the card only limited by your imaginiation....because it sure as hell can't actually do anything with wood screws and no power connectors, that they were 9 months away from going to launch best case scenario and more likely they were looking like a bankrupt hardware ompany.
You can say the pentium 4 was a great chip that lived up to expectations and ran nice and cool.
You can say the Phenom 1 chips were cool and energy efficient
and claim that larrabee won't be the next Itanium
It doesn't make it true...because they ARE SCREWED AND NEED MONEY. Wait for proof buy what you want then. Until that time no one knows anything for certain other than the current track record nvidia has in gpu's.