VMWare has a beta testing programme for its venerable virtualisation software VMWare Workstation. Version 6.5 is going to add a number of very impressive and long-awaited features such as the Unity feature (pioneered in VMWare Fusion on the Mac), proper 3D acceleration support for Windows machines (yes, this means Direct X 9.0c and most probably, yes this means games and a whole slew of applications previously impossible to run under VMWare). I’ll be giving Beta 1 a try in the next few weeks and I’ll report here if anything worth mentioning comes up. I’d be very much interested to find what the pricing of this upgrade will be for owners of Workstation 6.0.

I really have no words for this. One of the most impressive videos on computer graphics I’ve seen in years. And I guess the guys and gals at Tübingen are not the only ones working on such models. Let the good times films roll.