Intel fakes Ivy Bridge graphics on stage at CES

Watch the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGrPyMKA_k" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGrPyMKA_k</a><p>That wasn't a fake demo. That was a presentation which included a video where the presenter was joking around like it was live for about 10 seconds. No one in the audience was deceived, you can hear they got a good-natured chuckle out of it.<p>SemiAccurate is flatly misrepresenting this IMHO.

Anandtech confirmed that a similar machine can run the game though<p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5359/intel-confirms-working-dx11-on-ivy-bridge" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/show/5359/intel-confirms-working-dx...</a>

Funniest Intel fake I ever saw this: Intel had a demo booth at at computer covention where they ... ta da ... were demonstrating the latest whatever. I peered inside the computers and had a good chuckle. This was obviously run by the marketing guys on the cheap because the "intel inside" ... was actually and AMD chip.

Regardless of whether or not Intel's hardware can run a DX11 game well, doesn't it seem to be in bad taste to pretend to be playing a game when in reality you are at best streaming from backstage and at worst playing back a precanned recording? I feel like it is as if I downloaded a tech demo from graphics engine people and it ended up being an EXE wrapping a movie. Sure it might look pretty, but is that what people are expecting to see?

Didn't look like he was trying to fake anything at all. The VLC control bar was in plain view on a screen in front of everyone! Then he lets the audience in on the gag by letting go of the wheel while the video continues to roll.

SemiAccurate loves drama. Take everything you read on that site with a grain of salt. (Especially if it has to do with Nvidia. Charlie <i>hates</i> Nvidia.)

Yay! They used VLC! \o/<p>Deactivating OSD and fullscreen controller is not really hard, it is on the main page of the simple preferences...<p>Anyhow, I don't think they pretended it was actually playing the game.

VLC has support for streaming video content and receiving it; I presumed that was how they were running it. Semi accurate sounds about right!

In case you haven't watched the video, this article completely misrepresents what actually happened. The author takes things a bit too literally, and lacks a sense of humor and sarcasm. It's pretty clear the presenter intended to reveal his brief deception and was only pretending to play.