AR has been a topic of interest, charm, and intrigue since Ivan Sutherland put stereoscopic floating wire-frame cubes in front of Bob Sproull’s eyes in 1968. Since then dozens, maybe even hundreds, of designs have been tried while the concept of AR expanded from a head-mounted display to head-up displays in fighter aircraft and high-end automobiles to smartphones and helmets. … Read more
Claiming to be the first 6DoF standalone passthrough video AR headset, the three-year-old, 10-person, Paris-based startup Lynx has introduced their Lynx-R1 that is scheduled to ship this summer. Introduced at the 2020 SPIE conference in San Francisco on February 3rd, the HMD uses an occluded display as a VR headset does with pass-through video for AR, making it a mixed … Read more
Stacks eight 16Gb DRAM dies to 16GB with transfer speed at 3.2 Gbps
Nvidia has officially launched its play anywhere game service with the familiar-sounding name, GeForce Now. The “new” service has been evolving since 2013 when the company introduced Nvidia Grid in 2013 and developed its Shield remote gaming approach. All that technology has been collapsed into GeForce Now, with cloud services provided by Nvidia and partners. GeForce Now represents an alternative approach to other cloud … Read more
If you’ve been in any large city you’ve seen LED video walls. Vegas, of course, is lousy with them. Now, visualize an LED panel that you can see through. And now visualize one you can bend. So what would a room be like that was all glass so you could see outside to say a park, and inside you were … Read more
zSpace was founded in 2001 and immediately caused a stir as one of the first companies to deliver XR in supremely practical applications relying on 3D visualization. zSpace now offers three models: a laptop, and two AIOs (all-in-ones), all of which come with 3D glasses and a stylus. The secret of zSpace’s technology is the tracking built into the display. … Read more
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Intel beat Wall Street’s expectations again with its fourth-quarter financial performance sending the company’s stock up to an all-time high Friday after the chipmaker reported late-Thursday afternoon terrific results for the last quarter in 2019. Twenty billion dollars. Think about that for a moment. If every human, man, woman, child or politician, oh wait, I did say, human, if … Read more
Source: Gizbot.com If you can’t spell 5G or explain it to your significant other, don’t go to Barcelona because everyone there will be smarter than, and bored with, you. We have set up a pool, and put $1,000 into it; contributions are invited. Guess how many times you will see the term 5G while in Barcelona, beginning with when … Read more
Maya, an upcoming influencer has been found dead, and an obsessed detective suspects foul play. Her phone appears to be intentionally wiped, and her cause of death seems… unnatural. You are given her phone to conduct an unsanctioned police investigation, and piece together the mystery surrounding her death. Solve the case before whatever happened to Maya… happens again. And so … Read more
Mount Vulkaan – Wikipedia The sun never sets on Khronos, and Vulkan never sleeps. Khronos’s Vulkan is also no Rip Van Winkel and since the release of Vulkan 1.1 at Siggraph 2016, over 23 extensions to an already robust API have been suggested to the committee. Those extensions have been accepted bringing significant developer-requested access to new hardware functionality, … Read more
