Interactive V-Ray rendering is coming to Clara.io

[glorybound]

Anything to this? I don't recall us talking about it, so I thought I would open it up to you guys, for conversation.

http://vimeo.com/72194528

[vlado]

It's cool, right? I find the whole concept fascinating, it's like having 3ds Max in your browser...

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

The cloud, baby!

It's cool, right? I find the whole concept fascinating, it's like having 3ds Max in your browser...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Slazzo]

In future instead of buying a heavy workstation + software and licenses just pay a subscription and work from your tablet.

[Morbid Angel]

It's cool, right? I find the whole concept fascinating, it's like having 3ds Max in your browser...

But its not 3ds max? Its some standalone program? Why not just have 3ds max or maya.

[tricky]

Interesting. I could essentially work on my iPad.

It is easy to get excited with these kind of demos, but past experience with things like RT has shown me that it never works as well in the real world with real projects and all their associated complexities. Yellow bunnys and coloured balls are great. But stick in a high-end interior project with high-poly beds, lots of light sources, textured floorboards using necessary 3rd party plugins (such as bercon and multitexture) and it all falls apart.

It is great that the research is being done. We will get there eventually.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

i ve tried it and i think it sucks...sorry to say this...however, its and interesting, pioneering concept.
Couple of months ago though....maybe its better now.
Back then, the UI was i nightmare to use in my browser.

[DPS]

I think the concept is great. This is similar: http://www.nvidia.com/object/visual-...appliance.html

The previous company that I was working for were looking into this - so you have these super smick computers that are used by employees globally. So it would save them being switched off for the largest proportion of every 24hrs. Would save a lot in hardware and you'd always have the best graphics.

[vlado]

i ve tried it and i think it sucks...sorry to say this...however, its and interesting, pioneering concept. Couple of months ago though....maybe its better now. Back then, the UI was i nightmare to use in my browser.

It certainly needs more work, but nothing is ever perfect from the start

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

I think the concept is great. This is similar: http://www.nvidia.com/object/visual-...appliance.html

The previous company that I was working for were looking into this - so you have these super smick computers that are used by employees globally. So it would save them being switched off for the largest proportion of every 24hrs. Would save a lot in hardware and you'd always have the best graphics.

I would like to see VrayRT running on some cloud base gpu farm like iray nitro :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WyZQX7z8Jo

And a car is nice, but a interior or exterior, or something more complicated would be awesome...

Stan

[vlado]

I would like to see VrayRT running on some cloud base gpu farm like iray nitro :

That kind of a GPU cluster is terribly expensive; from what I understand, it is several machines wired with InfiniBand and custom hardware/software. It's not like you could get 260 GPUs from the Amazon cloud and expect the same performance. Unfortunately it is beyond us to build such a cluster.

Best regards,
Vlado