NVIDIA Shows Off Digital Ira Faceworks Demo Running On Next-Gen Logan Mobile SoC

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, October 17, 2013, 10:37 AM EDT

NVIDIA is holding a tech event currently in Montreal to showcase a number of the tools and technologies the company has developed to foster state of the art in game development. The event will be taking place over the next two days and we’re told there will be a number of newsworthy items revealed.

The morning of Day 1 began with NVIDIA’s VP of Content and Technology, Tony Tomasi talking about “The Way It’s Meant To Be Played” initiative. He outlined a number of existing games that already leverage NVIDIA technology, like PhysX and Waveworks, and discussed a number of new or upcoming games, like Batman: Arkham Origins, that will use NVIDIA tech as well.

NVIDIA Battle Tool Running On Ubuntu Linux

Tomasi then moved on to talk about the tools and development platform, dubbed Gameworks, that NVIDIA has produced to help games developers integrate all of NVIDIA’s various technologies. Many of the tools are available for various operating systems, like Windows, Linux and OSX, which NV

Digital Ira Running On NVIDIA Logan Dev Kit

During his talk, Tomasi took a moment to show off Faceworks, and the “Digital Ira” face that they’ve demoed at various events over the last year or so. This particular demo was a little different, however, in that it was running on Logan test kit. If you're unfamiliar, Logan is the codename for one of NVIDIA’s next-gen mobile SoCs, which features a Kepler-based GPU, like current GeForce GTX 600 and 700 series parts. The demo ran perfectly smooth and the quality of imagery was as good as we’ve seen on any other platform to date.

NVIDIA Logan SoC Dev Kit Hardware

There weren’t many technical details revealed, but it has been previously noted that Logan will feature a Kepler-based GPU and support CUDA 5 and OpenGL 4.3 “out of the box”. Logan, which according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun is “the size of a dime” will offer up to 3X the compute performance of current solutions with full production starting early next year.

Stay tuned to HotHardware for more news from NVIDIA’s event over the coming hours. We’ll be posting up some of the juicier tid bits as they’re disclosed.

Tags: Nvidia, graphics, tegra, SoC, logan, FaceWorks

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com