For whatever think this week’s start of the beta edition of AMD’s Fusion Media Explorer, the company’s prototypal forray in the ethnic media hub / covering space, isn’t existence met with a elevation of buzz. For a 40-year older colossus of a school consort that’s mostly famous for its micro-processors and attendant technologies, that’s quite surprising, especially because the creation actually appears to be quite cool, if not rattling original these days.

I feature appears, because the artefact unsuccessful on my machine for demand of an AMD processor (I should hit known), and I should belike state the covering has exclusive been proven for ingest on Windows and UNIX machines. From what I crapper gather, it most sure makes me want to effort it asap though.

Here’s how AMD pitches the covering (buzzword alert):

The AMD Fusion Media Explorer (FME) is a newborn 3D Immersive Social Media and Digital Media Browser, shapely and diffuse by AMD. In constituent to sanctioning unequalled transmission and ethnic media experiences, FME does a enthusiastic employ of showcasing the noesis of AMD CPUs and GPUs. This covering demonstrates what our platforms are confident of when the code is fashioned to verify flooded advantage.

AMD Fusion Media Explorer combines a user?s topical media items, nonnegative attendant online noesis from providers much as, Flickr, YouTube, and Microsoft Live. In addition, FME has Facebook combining which gives our users modify more options for bill or interacting with their selection photos or friends? photos. All of this is managed by an desegrated see engine, that makes it rattling cushy to apace place what you are hunting for.

So basically, the FME covering allows you to analyse and see for transmission noesis same photos, videos, penalization etc. straightforward from your hornlike intend as substantially as online destinations same Flickr, YouTube and Facebook, and enables you to deal them with your friends on a difference of ethnic networking services from within the three-dimensional interface. The scrollable 3D slip appears to be a pleasant touch. For a broad review, analyse TheInquirer or feature the release notes.

The screenshots and recording beneath inform me a aggregation of the (now dead) Pogo Browser initiative from AT&T, and also of Cooliris, which offers a kindred screen application.

In the journal place announcing the restricted beta promulgation of the Fusion Media Explorer, AMD’s Director of Product Marketing Casey Gotcher says that the papers has been specially matured for its Puma and Dragon-based notebook and screen systems and module be provided liberated to AMD customers, and in whatever cases haw become pre-installed on superior AMD-based systems.

(Via GadgetVenue)

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