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HP Gaming Summit

Published 05 April 2007, 03:00 PM

We held the HP Gaming Summit last night at DogPatch studios in San Francisco. We held the summit to talk about our gaming business strategy and to show some HP Labs technologies now extended to the gaming domain. We've been working on a number of technologies for many years, but now that HP has VooDoo we have an extra-good reason to apply them to gaming. Yes, it's all work!

Update: There has been a lot of press coverage and quite a few blog posts on the event.

The summit agenda was as follows:

  • Shane Robison, EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer
    • Shane kicked off describing why gaming is important and strategic to HP.
    • Interactive online gaming requires raw compute power and scale. HP plays in this market.
    • Gamers are early adopters and will pay for leading edge technologies. HP can commercialize our innovative technologies for gamers, and then spread them to our other products as they scale and become more economical.
    • VooDoo gives HP a strategic position in the gaming market to move on this strategy... and the DNA to do it.
    • In addition to VooDoo, HP has a GameOn team in our Technology Solutions Group that develops infrastructure for online gaming.
  • Rahul Sood, Chief Technologist, Global Gaming Business Unit, HP Personal Systems Group
    • Rahul talked about where he sees the HP gaming business going in the future.
    • The gaming experience will be more immersive, mobile, and physical.
    • HP has the VooDoo products for extreme performance, the HP and Compaq products for configurable and baseline computing. Later this year HP will fill the gap with an interesting gaming product offering... look out!
    • Rahul led a panel discussion on the future of gaming. The panelists were:
      • Dr. Lars Butler, Trion World Network, Founder & CEO
      • Roy Taylor, NVIDIA, Vice President Content Relations
      • Rich Wickham, Microsoft, Director of Games for Windows, Entertainment, and Devices Division
      • Randy Stude, Intel, Director of Gaming Program Office
  • Susie Wee, Director, Mobile & Media Systems Lab, HP Labs
    • Susie described the next-generation gaming experience by VooDoo + HP Labs. More on this in this post.
    • HP Labs has been developing technologies for 40 years. With VooDoo, HP Labs is focussed on applying these technologies towards gaming.
    • HP Labs technology areas for gaming include: Experience design, multimedia (audio/video/graphics), mobility, networking, management, security, sensing, context, social media, and web.  HP Labs has a global presence in America, Asia, and Europe, which is important to help us understand how gaming is viewed in done in different parts of the world.
    • VooDoo + HP Labs are creating the Next-Gen Gaming Experience. This is an immersive visual experience, a social mobile experience, and a physical experience.
    • Susie transitioned us to the main part of the evening- The technology demos!
HP Labs Technology demos
We showed 4 HP Labs technologies now aimed at gaming and the HP TouchSmart PC.
  • Panoply: Seamless, curved display that fills the gamer's field of view. Uses multiple projectors and real-time video processing algorithms to do geometric and photometric calibration to make them look like one immersive display.
  • Pluribus: Better-than-theater-experience multi-projector display. Uses multiple projectors with video processing to get better contrast, greater brightness, higher resolution, and better color rendition.
  • Misto: Touch screen display in your living room coffee table. Examines new interaction models for sharing, controlling, and interacting with media and games on your tabletop.
  • Mscapes (a.k.a. Mediascapes): Multimedia experiences bridging the physical and virtual world. Allows you to create games using sensors (location, IR beacons, heart rate monitors) to trigger multimedia. More on this to come in May!
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