Oh wow that is pretty

That's the one problem I always had with video games is hair, it's finally approaching real life :)

Now why would anyone that has a GTX295 want to upgrade to this card? Anyone being me...

I think each hair is a single entity just like in Flowers for the PS3 where every string of grass is seperate entity. That's what I got from the hair demo, I could be wrong.

0.2 fps and 0.6 fps three times better. Ray tracing is a long ways off.

Rendering the hair on a single person runs at 26 FPS. Let that sink in. Ray tracing won't happen for a long long period of time.

I will. And maybe even two of them :3

Those demos are the very opposite of real-world applications.

Maybe in 2 or 3 gens games will actually be able to do similar stuff.

Too many people don't understand the idea of tech demos :\

There are many ways of doing tech demos. GPU makers tend to show extreme cases which will never be seen by anyone using their products.

And now the counterpoint:

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/17/nvidia-gf100-takes-280w-and-unmanufacturable/

We'll find out in March who's right.