Immerse 2016
September 20th 2016
The Northwest’s premier event for immersive technology will explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality will transform manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine, architecture, real estate, social experiences, tourism, entertainment and more.
Elizabeth Baron, Technical Director at the Ford Motor Company‘s Immersive Virtual Environment (iVE) joins Chris Donahue, AMD and Sonya Kim, MD, One Caring Team to start the morning.Breakout Sessions include “Insights from the Real World”; “How Audio Can Make or Break Immersive Experiences” ; “Going Courtside in Real Time without Traveling” and a fireside chat with Tom Furness, the ‘Grandfather’ of Virtual Reality, among others.
Call me lazy, backward, a troglodyte, whatever
Techwatch September 14th 2016
I didn’t create the problem, I’m a victim like you I’m not buying a new PC. Even though the one I have is embarrassingly old, going on three years now, and even though it crashes once a day, I’m sticking with it for now. Why? Because I have work to do and I don’t have an IT staff. I’m the IT staff, just like everyone else around here is, and we all have work to do. And Microsoft makes that hard enough with their stupid be-smarter-than-me tricks andMy customer, my supplier
Subscriptions open the portals for media flow Today, Adobe is rolling out new improvements in its Creative Cloud services. Because Adobe’s products span so many creative industries — photography, graphic arts, illustration, video production, movie production, marketing, audio, and all the jobs that fit somewhere in between&mdash Click here to read this blog entryPortrait Displays synergic acquisition of SpectraCal
Adding color analysis to color correct makes total sense Portrait Displays has been supplying visual enhancement software applications and middleware solutions for the computer display industry for almost two decades but didn’t have a closed-loop system. Customers relied on third parties to measure the results (at the screen). Click here to read this blog entryWhy I go to COFES - It’s not for the wine
I’ve gone to COFES for the past 10 or 15 years, I can’t remember, and don’t care. When Brad first started it he tried to get me to come, but I was either too busy or too cheap. When I finally got my lazy butt to Click here to read this blog entryLooking forward - To the GTC conference
Every year now for the past seven years Nvidia has presented a GPU conference. The first on in Late September 2008 was named the GPU Technology Conference, and it overwhelmed the Fairmont hotel, and prompting the company to rename it GTC and move it to the convention center. This year Click here to read this blog entryIs Xbox becoming a PC?
Microsoft unifies PC and Xbox One platforms into one ecosystem with Universal Windows Applications (UWAs) Microsoft announced over a year ago in January 2015, that it was bringing Xbox apps to Windows 10 PCs, and that would allow cross-platform play and a cohesive friends list across both platforms. In November, the Xbox Click here to read this blog entry
What's New
- The Sept.13 edition of TechWatch is ready for download.
Subscribers can now download the latest edition of TechWatch and read Jon Peddie's back-page editorial Call me lazy, backward, a troglodyte, whatever on the TechWatch product page. And is this weeks issue 3D printing update, AI and GPUS, VR Watch
- JPR’s Q’2 2016 Edition of the Workstation Report Series is now available
Q2’16 a good quarter for workstations, Q2'16 not only represented a welcome bounce out of the recent market doldrums, it set a new quarterly record. A total of around 1.1 million branded workstations shipped, representing a 21.7% sequential gain. In the cyclical workstation market, year-over-year metrics are typically a better gauge of market health, and the second quarter's 7.8% is a very welcome figure, particularly in light of the general malaise enveloping traditional PC-related markets. Subscribers can now download the report on the Workstation Report page.
