Nreal makes lightweight TV glasses and raises $100 million
Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses maker Nreal raised $100 million and will use it for international expansion and development of new products.
Back 4 Blood—a shooter’s shooter
Non-stop team play dash through zombie land
AMD introduces its next mainstream card based on RDNA 2
The RX 6600 is targeted at the 1080P gaming.
New SPUD to Splay lets you play
Alex Wesley with collapsible projection screens (Source Next Corps Illuminate) Alexander (Alex) Wesley founded Arovia with George Zhu, CTO, and Justin Mintzer, CMO, in Houston, Texas, in April 2015. Wesley started Arovia after leaving optical metrology developer, Zygo in Connecticut in 2014. In between, he developed the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD). The idea for SPUD came from years of … Read more
Open Design Alliance pushes horizons for data integration
The Open Design Alliance conference has become a sprawling affair. Each year, the working groups present their work for the year and member companies show how they’ve been putting ODA technology to work. They are a productive bunch, and after a decade or so of banging on the challenges of CAD documentation, the group developed a very long list of … Read more
The tech behind the Star Trek Roddenberry Archive
Gene Roddenberry is the creator of the popular Star Trek universe of movies and TV series. Now, a new partnership has been formed, called the Roddenberry Archive, to document his creative works.
Germ-free ultrathin notebook from Acer
Acer America announced the Aspire Vero notebook. The company says it is their first sustainability-focused product. It is one of Acer’s first products powered by Windows 11, is eco-friendly, EPEAT Silver-certified, which features post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic throughout the chassis and keyboard with 100% recyclable packaging. It also has antimicrobial Corning gorilla glass, an alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass formulated with … Read more
Nemetschek is optimistic about 2021
As companies in design and engineering are turning in their second and third quarters for the year, it’s been fascinating to see how fortunes have changed. Nemetschek, like many companies in AEC, took an early hit when coronavirus came to Europe and the US, the primary markets for Nemetschek. But as we have seen over and over in AEC and … Read more
Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more
IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day
IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in 1884. Their stated hope was to “collaborate on ideas that leverage technology for a better tomorrow.”
IEEE—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers had a day
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering that was formed in January 1963 from the amalgamation of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers. IEEE Day was established to celebrate the first worldwide gathering of engineers who came together to share their technical ideas in … Read more
Siemens kicks off its future with XaaS
Xcelerator heads to the clouds. (Source: Cedar Fair Entertainment Company) Big news on the big industry front: Xcelerator from Siemens Industry Solutions is going to the cloud. Why? Because it makes a really great acronym: XaaS. And, more to the point, the cloud has always been Xcelerator’s logical destiny. Siemens says: “Xcelerator is an integrated portfolio of engineering software, … Read more