PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X announced
New machines for the holiday season
R&D project demos multi-player VR via phone
Multi-player VR Park in the Philippines. (Source: Nvidia) Purdue University researchers have created a new approach to VR that will allow multiple players to interact with the same VR app on smartphones and provide new opportunities for education, health care, and entertainment. Researchers at Purdue University have created what they say is a new approach to VR that allows … Read more
Xbox Series X peak
The Xbox Series X is defined by three primary characteristics: power with new AMD GPU, speed with 1 TB SSD, and compatibility. Microsoft says the new X Box Series X will be backward compatible and able to run every Xbox game released since the launch of the Xbox One in 2013 (but not Kinect titles). And, it will be able … Read more
3D dashboard: will it help or distract?
Using eye-tracking to drive a set of slanted parallax-barrier slats, Continental has developed a new 3D display system for the Genesis GV80 instrument panel. Continental aims to revolutionize the way displays are configured in automotive vehicles. The automotive OEM technology company is developing an unusual cockpit solution, the Natural 3D Lightfield Instrument Cluster, in cooperation with Silicon Valley company … Read more
Varjo adds chroma-keying for realtime AR
Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma-keying, also known as green-screening, has been used extensively in film making and broadcasting. Varjo has added that capability to its toolkit and is claiming to be the first company to do so for mixed reality devices. With object tracking, says the company, users can … Read more
Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing API announced
courtesy of PTC Khronos has integrated Ray Tracing Pipelines into the Vulkan open standard API together with the option of ray launching from any shader and some new ways of offloading intensive setup tasks to multi-core CPUs Microsoft announced the development of a ray-tracing extension to DirectX 12 called DXR in March 2018 at the same time that Nvidia … Read more
Visualization for everyone: Khronos starts development of ANARI—an ANAlytic Rendering Interface API
New ANARI API will streamline data visualization Analytic rendering is image generation performed primarily to gain and communicate insights into complex data sets. Scientific visualization is the primary application domain using analytic rendering today, followed by the emerging data analytics space. Recent advances in rendering technology for image generation—especially the introduction of real-time ray tracing—significantly advanced data visualization and … Read more
Ray tracing in next gen Xbox AND PS5
Reports from sites and bloggers, reliable and otherwise, have been swirling since October that Sony’s next-gen PS5 will support ray tracing using an AMD custom VPU. That small, basic bit of information was also confirmed at a press briefing at the end of January by AMD project manager Mithun Chandrashekhar, who said, “RDNA 2, the next-gen, will support raytracing. Both … Read more
Varjo adds chroma-keying for realtime AR
Finnish-based Varjo has added realtime chroma-keying and object-tracking to its XR-1 Developer Edition headset. Chroma-keying, also known as green-screening, has been used extensively in film making and broadcasting (think scrimmage line). Varjo has added that capability and is claiming to be the first company to do so for mixed reality devices. With object tracking, says the company, professional users can … Read more
AMD in position to gain more market share from Intel
If Intel isn’t going to roll out 7 nm until late 2021, then that means the dGPUs Intel has said it will release later this year will be at 10 nm. Otherwise, Intel will use a merchant fab like Samsung or TSMC to get a 7-nm dGPU to be competitive with AMD and Nvidia who is expected to announce a … Read more
Pixelworks content-optimized motion and HDR processing for mobiles
Smartphones have held the high ground in acuity and PPI for a few years now, exceeding PCs and TVs by a factor of 1.5× or more, even as the screen size has increased. However, PPI is one part of the equation, dynamic range and tone mapping are another, and frame rate is yet another. In recent years, smartphone display technology—notably … Read more
Basemark compares GPUs across platforms, OS, and APIs
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