NVidia bought Ageia for their patents, not for their technology.
This is interesting. I have been helping with the beta testing for Newton 2.0, and I don't think the simplicity and performance of that system will be easy to beat. Actually, if Havok is designed anything like PhysX was, I don't think that many people will actually take advantage of this offer. I am betting their SDK is incredibly complicated for such an expensive package.
I am basing this on my experience working with PhysX versus Newton. PhysX had a lot of marketing claiming it was the best, but it was perhaps the worst physics SDKs I have worked with.
This is interesting. I have been helping with the beta testing for Newton 2.0, and I don't think the simplicity and performance of that system will be easy to beat. Actually, if Havok is designed anything like PhysX was, I don't think that many people will actually take advantage of this offer. I am betting their SDK is incredibly complicated for such an expensive package.
I am basing this on my experience working with PhysX versus Newton. PhysX had a lot of marketing claiming it was the best, but it was perhaps the worst physics SDKs I have worked with.