and
Alex Albrecht hosting a live
Diggnation show The first Nvision event, Nvision 08, was held at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts from August 25 to August 28, 2008 in
San Jose, California.
Adam Savage and
Jamie Hyneman, of
MythBusters fame, demonstrated how
GPUs solve specific tasks faster in parallel than they can be executed on general purpose
CPUs by painting a
Mona Lisa with a massively parallel
paint gun.
Guinness World Records was present to officiate the record for the longest continuous
LAN party at 36 hours. Kevin Gee from
Microsoft revealed more details publicly about what would be in the next
DirectX 11.
Revision3's
Kevin Rose and
Alex Albrecht were present to host a live
Diggnation show. France-based Games Services was present to host the
2008 Electronic Sports World Cup. == References ==