Hewlett-Packard’s purchase last year of high-end gaming PC maker VoodooPC is beginning to bear fruit as the computing and printing giant is now offering previews of advanced game technologies it might soon bring to market. These are likely to include groundbreaking devices and applications such as a handheld, tablet PC-type game unit that will use GPS and rendering technology to meld virtual images with reality. With such a device, “people could, for example, play a game throughout a city using wireless handheld devices,” said HP.
HP Got Game?
Posted by: Fred J. Aun April 6, 2007 10:56 AMHewlett-Packard’s purchase last year of high-end gaming PC maker VoodooPC is beginning to bear fruit as the computing and printing giant is now offering previews of advanced game technologies it might soon bring to market. These are likely to include groundbreaking devices and applications such as a handheld, tablet PC-type game unit that will use GPS and rendering technology to meld virtual images with reality. With such a device, “people could, for example, play a game throughout a city using wireless handheld devices,” said HP.