NVIDIA will talk about the future of the company at the Keynote scheduled for Wednesday at the GTC and incidentally has shown a machine capable of moving four virtual reality glasses in the same environment for cooperative play.
This next Wednesday, May 10, the Keynote will be held at the NVIDIA GTC, which will be at 9am PT (15:00 GMT), where the CEO of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang will speak about the future of the company, specifically in virtual reality , artificial intelligence and deep learning. NVIDIA last year took advantage of the event to announce the NVIDIA Tesla P100 based on the Pascal architecture and that it was the world's first graphics card to use HBM2 memory and the first Pascal GPU intended for deep learning.
Currently we do not know if NVIDIA announced a new product and if done, it would be a product outside the market for gaming graphics cards, where apparently NVIDIA will no longer launch anything else because it is focused on NVIDIA Volta, although there is the possibility that they will give new data regarding it. to the Volta, although who knows. There is talk of a graphics card with Volta, but for the professional sector, although this option seems impractical at the moment. Maybe what it shows is something about autonomous vehicles or something intended for servers or supercomputing.
What I know the company has shown at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose is a multi-user virtual reality system. The objective of this system was to demonstrate that several users could play in virtual reality simultaneously and through a single system, to have a joint experience. For this experience, through a single system, a server based on four Quadro P6000 graphics has been used, in turn moving four virtual machines to allow four experiences on HTC VIVE Business Editions. This configuration, together with the HTC tracking system, allows four people to interact in the same virtual space. This is nothing more than a show of force and the sample of a concept and that those attending the GTC can experience what it feels like, but that it will not reach homes in the short term.
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Taking into account that each Quadro P6000 costs $ 5500 and each unit of HTC VIVE Business Edition costs $ 1200, it seems unlikely that a user will end up having such a machine, since the sum of everything would be $ 26800, regardless the motherboard, processor (possibly an Intel Xeon), power supply, and other components that are not specified by NVIDIA. Nor does it seem feasible for any company to invest in one of these systems. It is clear that it is only a demonstration of the power of its hardware.
