The Quarry video game from Supermassive Games takes its cues from slasher-type horror films. (Source: Digital Domain) The Quarry, a just-released video game from Supermassive Games and published by 2K Games, is described as an interactive drama/horror along the lines of a teen slasher flick like Friday the 13th, as nine teen counselors struggle to survive their last night … Read more
Substance 3D Modeler interprets spatial input from the physical world, enabling users to sculpt a model intuitively. (Source: Adobe) Adobe was busy recently, announcing several updates to various products. Many of those pertain to the company’s Substance 3D offering. These include a 3D Materials SDK that allows developers to write their own plug-ins and use the Substance 3D Material and … Read more
Nvidia Research is striking a chord with its work on an inverse rendering pipeline. (Source: Nvidia) Nvidia is certainly getting into the swing of things at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in New Orleans this week. At the conference, Nvidia Research is presenting a paper on what it calls 3D MoMa, an inverse rendering pipeline that … Read more
(Source: Epic Games) A little over a year ago, Epic Games revolutionized the creation of realistic humans with its free MetaHuman Creator browser-based app, which reduced the time it takes to generate a photorealistic digital human from weeks or even months to less than an hour. Now Epic has expanded its portfolio with a new version (still in Early … Read more
Characters and universes replicate-transform and collide in the Multiverse of Madness
Groundbreaking research has always been an important aspect of SIGGRAPH, as scientists and researchers present the latest industry advancements to conference-goers. The acceptance rate for presenting a technical paper at SIGGRAPH averages between 17%–27%, following a recently-instituted double-blinded peer-review process. So, the fact that Nvidia, in collaboration with top academic researchers at 14 universities, will be presenting a record number … Read more
Company teams with academics to present record number of research papers at SIGGRAPH 2022
Glassbox Technologies is taking the sting out of the complex process of virtual productions, releasing a major update to its cross-platform virtual camera software, Dragonfly, with new camera simulation functionality and features that further streamline the virtual production workflow process. DragonFly 3.0 includes new physical camera and lens simulations, real-time compositing, editing after takes, full support for Epic’s Unreal Engine, … Read more
The ThinkPad P16 mobile workstation is Lenovo’s all-new power offering, delivering the highest levels of support of any ThinkPad P series mobile workstation. Inside is a new class of Intel Core processors with support for up to Nvidia RTX A5500 professional graphics card, giving the mobile workstation the power needed to perform complex applications; outside is a bold, modern, stylized … Read more
Zoey, the fresh new face of real-time photorealistic autonomous digital humans from the DHG at Digital Domain. She’s been gifted with brains and beauty. Zoey is personable, funny, smart, a great conversationalist, speaks multiple languages, and often wears her emotions on her sleeve. There’s something else to be said about her: She’s not human. She’s the new face of … Read more
PTC has released Creo 9, the latest version of the company’s CAD software, providing features that enable users to take advantage of emerging technologies such as generative design, real-time simulation, and additive manufacturing. Updates to Creo 9 across the core modeling environment improve productivity and ease of use. For instance, updates to the model tree make it faster to structure, … Read more
Looking Glass Factory is enabling users of Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 to transport their content into the third dimension with the just-released Looking Glass HoloPlay Plugin for UE5. With this plug-in, UE5 users can craft photorealistic 3D holographic images and animations for use with any of Looking Glass’s holographic displays through a direct connection between the Unreal engine and the display. … Read more
