Today’s digital workforce relies on applications that use GPU acceleration at their core. From the most powerful 3D design tools, to common office productivity tools, and even web browsing, everyday applications are designed to require graphics acceleration support. That includes virtual machines, which without GPU acceleration will often struggle with some of the most common desktop tasks. Answering that need, … Read more
Augmented reality can be found in five and, maybe one day, six highly different platforms and configurations. Vehicle head-up displays (HUD) are one of them. HUDs are used in airplanes, boats, trucks, and cars. HUDs are offered as optional or standard built-in equipment in new cars and trucks and as a retrofit device for older or less expensive cars and … Read more
Microsoft, never known to be modest, says their game stack exists to bring developers the tools they need to create bold, immersive game experiences, and DX12 Ultimate is the ideal tool to amplify gaming graphics. Pretty big statement. The company says they can back it up because DX12 Ultimate is the result of continued investment in the DirectX 12 platform … Read more
An ultra-high-speed SSD, with an integrated custom I/O system, a custom AMD GPU with ray tracing, and a highly immersive 3D audio processor. Mark Cerny, the lead system architect for the upcoming PS5, gave a virtual presentation called The Road to PS5 and revealed the main features of Sony’s future console. The new console will have three major features: a … Read more
New machines for the holiday season
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
