The first Nvision event, Nvision 08, was held at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts[1] from August 25 to August 28, 2008 in San Jose, California.
[2] Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, of MythBusters fame, demonstrated how GPUs solve specific tasks faster in parallel than they can be executed on general purpose CPUs by painting a Mona Lisa with a massively parallel paint gun.
[4] Kevin Gee from Microsoft revealed more details publicly about what would be in the next DirectX 11.
[5] Revision3's Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were present to host a live Diggnation show.
[6] France-based Games Services was present to host the 2008 Electronic Sports World Cup.