As a follow-up to the story yesterday about the announcement of plans for drivers from ASUS that would allow gamers to cheat (story), RIVA 3D contacted the folks at ASUS to ask them about their reaction to the outraged reaction to this announcement. Here is what they posted as the "gist" of what ASUS expressed:

1. The Transparency Drivers are a feature that ASUS has been exploring.
2. ASUS does not intend these drivers to enable cheating in games, but to take advantage of new technology and show the capabilities of the technology.
3. If the drivers are released (and that's not a definite thing yet), ASUS may pursue working with developers to ensure that this feature is detectable so that online tournaments, etc., are not affected in any way.
4. ASUS listens to the feedback, and takes your feelings seriously when considering features for their products. After all, they ARE in the business to succeed... ;)

Meanwhile, what seems to be a more recent update on RIVA Station, gives news that this driver seems to have been recalled, according to further word they've received from ASUS Taiwan:

Asus has decided to call back this driver.

However, since the See-Through utility can let end user to learn some idea of how 3D work. Engineer team also spent many effort on that, so we will release a Try-version with limited usage to promote this technology and let user to decide how it will be.