Hello Anand, thanks for the great news. I've read on Fudzilla that there were already some GLBenchmark results of Tegra 3 floating around. However they also wrote that the current test suite is heavily iOS optimized. Of course it might be just a FUD, but I wanted to ask if you ever ran into it or researched it somehow. I was also wondering if there's a way to actually check if the test renders what it's supposed to render, because of the off-screen rendering mode? I am mentioning this because of my previous experience on AMD graphics with some game benchmarks with missing objects (not rendered soldiers) in Napoleon Total War (not saying it was intentional, guess it was just a bug, because it disappeared with newer issue of drivers). Thanks.
I still think the "very beautiful transition effects" in ICS are just this: Gimmicky special effects. They are just confusing and help in no way with spatial orientation ("Where am I, how did I get here and how do I get back?"). When I look at them in the video they instead create a moment of confusion and dizziness, at least for me.
Apart from that I can't wait for more ICS tablets.
Really? do you get lost easy? I already have ICS on my fascinate and its not the least bit confusing. I haven't even noticed any transition effects. I also wouldn't be surprised if you can turn them off. (I haven't looked)
Aren't all transition effects just gimmicky special effects though? They don't do anything but put a flashy little change when you go from one window to another. As for the confusion, I had no problem with it, doesn't seem hard to use or confusing in anyway to me.
Yeah, it's a funny quirk of human psychology that UIs which cover up the 'spinning hourglass' are thought of as smooth and slick when in reality they take no longer and actually more resources than simple 'waiting' icons.
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botero7781 - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - link
Any word on how soon we'll see ICS on the Verizon Xoom? It was supposed to be a GED, so I thought it would have already come down the pipe by now...prdola0 - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - link
Hello Anand,thanks for the great news. I've read on Fudzilla that there were already some GLBenchmark results of Tegra 3 floating around. However they also wrote that the current test suite is heavily iOS optimized. Of course it might be just a FUD, but I wanted to ask if you ever ran into it or researched it somehow.
I was also wondering if there's a way to actually check if the test renders what it's supposed to render, because of the off-screen rendering mode? I am mentioning this because of my previous experience on AMD graphics with some game benchmarks with missing objects (not rendered soldiers) in Napoleon Total War (not saying it was intentional, guess it was just a bug, because it disappeared with newer issue of drivers). Thanks.
uhuznaa - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - link
I still think the "very beautiful transition effects" in ICS are just this: Gimmicky special effects. They are just confusing and help in no way with spatial orientation ("Where am I, how did I get here and how do I get back?"). When I look at them in the video they instead create a moment of confusion and dizziness, at least for me.Apart from that I can't wait for more ICS tablets.
piiman - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - link
Really? do you get lost easy? I already have ICS on my fascinate and its not the least bit confusing. I haven't even noticed any transition effects. I also wouldn't be surprised if you can turn them off. (I haven't looked)Camikazi - Saturday, November 26, 2011 - link
Aren't all transition effects just gimmicky special effects though? They don't do anything but put a flashy little change when you go from one window to another. As for the confusion, I had no problem with it, doesn't seem hard to use or confusing in anyway to me.MadMan007 - Sunday, November 27, 2011 - link
Yeah, it's a funny quirk of human psychology that UIs which cover up the 'spinning hourglass' are thought of as smooth and slick when in reality they take no longer and actually more resources than simple 'waiting' icons.