I have never been a fan of the term mixed-reality, and think it is misleading, confusing, and annoying. Microsoft started it by calling their Hololens AR HMD an MR HMD because they were trying to get some product differentiation and distance from AR and the damage Google had done to the term. Qualcomm tried to sidestep the politics and … Read more
Last year at AWE, Prague-based VRgineers showed their super wide 180-degree FOV headset with “5K” displays, the XTAL. The XTAL headset was available in the U.S. for $5,800. (Source: VRgineers) The over-sized 770 g (1.7 lbs) HMD (including a head strap and balance counterweight) measures 299 mm × 123 mm × 140 mm (11.8 inch × 4.8 inch × … Read more
Remember JP’s rules for AR: Don’t be ugly or obnoxious Don’t be expensive or heavy Don’t be proprietary nreal comes very close to meeting all three requirements. The glasses are lightweight, they are not intrinsically ugly or obnoxious, but are obnoxiously colorful probably for market attention—hopefully, that can be toned-down for people over 25. They are not too expensive … Read more
ARM has done a lot of clever things over the past 29 years of its existence and buying Falanx in 2006 and continuing to invest in it for the past 13 years is one of them. (Selling to Softbank in 2016 wasn’t a bad move either for its investors.) New Mali-G77 GPU, ML Processor. Recently the company announced its latest … Read more
We are taking the arbitrary position of declaring any VR HMD with greater than 2.4mp per eye as being high-resolution VR. At the recent AWE conference, two companies stood out for their very high-resolution display capability: Varjo and VRgineers with 2560 × 1440 resolution per eye (3.7mp). Stockholm-based StarBreeze was the first to ship a hi-res VR HMD with their … Read more
At AWE this week, Qualcomm introduced its new Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Smart Viewer reference design that, the company says, will make it easier for hardware companies to create lightweight augmented reality glasses. XR1 is Qualcomm’s newest generation platform that, the company says, when implemented by its OEMs will bring mainstream users high-quality XR experiences. The XR1 platform also has special … Read more
Is this the one that will go to market? Qualcomm has shown up at Computex with an always on, always connected light-weight Windows compatible clamshell notebook since 2016. And yet, it never seemed to make it to the market. HP built one and Acer built one and Qualcomm showed them at their analysts and press meetings, but they were hard … Read more
In addition to the HP leather accented launch reported earlier, some of the other notebooks introduced at Computex were equally interesting. Some of them were concept devices and may never be commercially available, but the ideas are inspiring nonetheless. The many faces of dual screen notebooks The added weight, cost, and power drain of a large second screen might make … Read more
This is the latest installment of a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. 3Dfx was founded in 1994 in San Jose, California by former employees of Silicon Graphics (SGI) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm. In 1995, the company raised $5.5 million dollars from venture capitalists. … Read more
Samsung to integrate custom AMD Radeon graphics IP into future SoCs for mobile applications
HP introduces a new design language—wood At Computex, which was attended by over 120,000 people, HP rolled out a suite of twelve new products for consumer and commercial users. HP's lineup of products introduced at Computex 2019. (Source: HP) Based on a variety of processors, one of the standout features was wood paneling on the wrist rest of … Read more
I’m so glad I didn’t go to Computex this year. It’s not the humidity, or the torrential rains, or even 130,000 people in my way at the show. No, it’s the almost overwhelming slew of new products all at once. A firehose treatment my little brain can’t absorb. Intel had over a half dozen significant things to show. From new … Read more
