A shacknews press release today announced a new chipset to help with realtime physics and dynamics. Looks like some major companies and graphics card manufacturers are already on ‘board’:
http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/032206\_ageia\_shipping.x
Company link:
and from their site:
“Innovative solutions such as real-time physics preview in the Max and Maya, real-time debugging, and hardware acceleration in the authoring environment that approximates the capabilities of next-gen consoles make it easy to create once and deploy on all platforms.”