In a surprising yet logical decision, Nvidia recently announced their plans to purchase Aegia. Aegia makes hardware and software for ingame physics. Although their PhysX card had nothing short of atrocious adoption after its release over a year ago, their software is currently being used in over 140 games. There is no doubt that in game physics is the future; with destructible environment and fog effects already being implemented in games today. The question is exactly when will it become necessary to have a dedicated physics processor. Or after this acquisition, possibly a hybrid gpu/ppu. It will be interesting to see it play out.
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