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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (7669)	9/25/1998 6:40:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Woah! Could some of you guys look at this stuff on project X? This is the future and a future that I hope 3dfx envisions. cpumadness.com vmlabs.com next-generation.com insidetheweb.com 208.21.175.63 headline.gamespot.com vmlabs.com wired.com The last article goes on to say that this thing does real-time ray tracing and it will be out this year. Is this right? According to Sellers we are years away from this technology, but Project X is slated to be out by Christmas. In my investigations I saw a few ray tracing samples. "Oh my god!" is an understatement. Any comments? Pat P.S. Here's a neat comment from the last article: And he's concerned about potential competitors. "This is no time to rest on our laurels," he says. "We heard about a company recently that is trying to do something similar to us. In two years they got through $50 million. In the first two years of VM Labs we got through $3 million. We've run this on a shoestring - not entirely by choice." Let's hope it's our boys giving chase.