Chair co-founder on Infinity Blade 3

Polygon (my favorite video game website) has interviewed Donald Mustard after yesterday’s announcement:

And that dragon was blowing thousands of particles into the screen, which has this huge fill rate, right? It’s very traffic [intensive] for the CPU and GPU. And then we were able to blur those particles. We were able to … balloon those particles, and then add motion blur to them. And then add high-res shadows to the dragon, passing on itself - while doing fullscreen anti-aliasing. And then, on top of that, do a fullscreen color adjust and vignette pass, where it kind of adjusts the contrast and the color of the screen, and then also add distortion — the distortion of the flames and stuff.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I’m holding this device they’ve handed us. I’m, like, looking for extra wires or something. I couldn’t believe that it was real.

Apple seems to have outdone itself with this year’s SoC. The A7 looks like a very powerful beast.

It bodes well for ARM-powered MacBooks.