Implications
Dawn was not the first computerized demo of a realistic human character, as such demos have been created in the past for game consoles (such as the Dreamcast title Shenmue) and also some video cards. Nvidia themselves had created a demo featuring the lifelike characters of Aki Ross and Dr. Sid from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within a year before.
Dawn, however, was innovative in that she operated in real time. Previous lifelike human characters had been pre-rendered. As with Lara Croft of the Tomb Raider games, Dawn's voluptuous curves attracted a substantial amount of media attention.
Nvidia has subsequently repeated this strategy with several more recent real-time female demo characters, including Nalu (a mermaid), Luna (a cybernetic being), and Adrianne, a digital representation of real-life model Adrianne Curry.
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