OpenGL ES 2.0 shader effects on OMAP3

On the Imagination Technologies' stand at MWC08, the company had this demonstration of shader effects running on TI's OMAP3 platform (Imagination's PowerVR tech is integrated into the silicon). The effects are part of the new OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for mobile graphics. Handsets using this technology are expected to be in the market by the end of 2008.

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Science & Technology

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• OpenGL
• ES
• shader
• effects
• Imagination
• Technologies
• OMAP3

[jay33011211]

this is the texas instrument omap 3430 chipset, its what powers the palm pre and its faster than what iphone 3gs has...the creator of psx4all ported psx4all to palm pre and he himself said that the palm pres much faster.sad part was that iphone fans were telling him off for saying a fact after he made all those snes,psx & neogeo emulators.

[kinmanyuen]

pandora!

[killerlord987]

Where do I download openGL ES 2.0. On my iPod

[DBGabriele]

@FrozenPixelStudio

Direct3D is oop

Opengl no

[DBGabriele]

@FrozenPixelStudio

ps3 use openGL ES/ps3 but is slow

Indeed on ps3 there a alternative api, get all power of CELL (sorry for my bad english ;D )

[FrozenPixelStudio]

Playstation 3 is using OpenGL... You're wrong, Direct3D is inferior to OGL in all aspects :D

[cyborgtroy]

@snelpiller - I think OpenGL 4 is at least on par with DirectX 10 for features, but the graphics card companies tend to implement DirectX first.

But it's not like the performance is worse or anything. You can do all the same graphical techniques, and it runs on the same hardware as DX.

The only reason you can't use DirectX on small devices is because Microsoft owns DirectX, and Windows only runs on x86, which can't scale down that well.

[snelpiller]

@cyborgtroy right I know it available(didnt know about the ports tho, thanks) but what I mean is, isnt it inferior to direct X and so its primary use would be in mobile devices not powerful enough for directX?

[cyborgtroy]

@snelpiller - OpenGL is available on every OS. The OS X ports of Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 use it.

[snelpiller]

@cyborgtroy right, so then I guess its for mobile devices seeing how directX is used in all decent computer games

[cyborgtroy]

@snelpiller - OpenGL fills the same space as DirectX, it's for gaming.

Nothing to do with web applications. -_-

[jay33011211]

@zawette i never had a palm pre, but check this out and google this up cause this is a fact. samsung makes the A4 chipset thats in the iphone 4 & ipad. now i dont know if apple was to cheap to get the newer generation "hummingbird soc chip" or if samsung said f*ck off! cause now its only in there samsung galaxy phones and the gpu is 3 X's more powerfull than the iphone4 witch only makes 34 million triangle per sec while the hummingbird makes 98 million, so suck on that ! droid it up bitch!